tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16726360687265952802009-07-11T01:02:26.556-05:00Blog personal de J. RangelUn blog sobre todo un poco, música, literatura, cine, arte, tecnología, internet, diseño...Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-26651821310100459082009-06-30T19:34:00.001-05:002009-06-30T19:34:51.583-05:00CubesWithinACube [ejemplo de Processing]<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Jugueteando y mezclando entre si algunos de los ejemplos de <a href='http://www.processing.org'>Processing</a>, salió esto.<br /><br /><b>cubeswithincube.pde</b><br /><br /><font face='monospace'>import processing.opengl.*;<br /><br />// Flock array<br />int birdCount = 20;<br />Bird[]birds = new Bird[birdCount];<br />float[]birdsx = new float[birdCount];<br />float[]birdsy = new float[birdCount];<br />float[]birdsz = new float[birdCount];<br />float[]birdsrx = new float[birdCount];<br />float[]birdsry = new float[birdCount];<br />float[]birdsrz = new float[birdCount];<br />float[]birdsspd = new float[birdCount];<br />float[]birdsrot = new float[birdCount];<br /><br />Cube stage; // external large cube<br />int cubies = 50;<br />Cube[]c = new Cube[cubies]; // internal little cubes<br />color[][]quadBG = new color[cubies][6];<br /><br />// Controls cubie's movement<br />float[]x = new float[cubies];<br />float[]y = new float[cubies];<br />float[]z = new float[cubies];<br />float[]xSpeed = new float[cubies];<br />float[]ySpeed = new float[cubies];<br />float[]zSpeed = new float[cubies];<br /><br />// Controls cubie's rotation<br />float[]xRot = new float[cubies];<br />float[]yRot = new float[cubies];<br />float[]zRot = new float[cubies];<br /><br />// Size of external cube<br />float bounds = 300;<br /><br />void setup() {<br /> size(400, 300, OPENGL);<br /> colorMode(RGB, 1);<br /> texmap = loadImage("world32k.jpg"); <br /> initializeSphere(sDetail);<br /> <br /> for (int i = 0; i < cubies; i++){<br /> // Each cube face has a random color component<br /> float colorShift = random(0, 1);<br /> quadBG[i][0] = color(0, 0, 0);<br /> quadBG[i][1] = color(random(0, .1), random(0, .1), random(0, .1));<br /> quadBG[i][2] = color(random(0, .2), random(0, .2), random(0, .2));<br /> quadBG[i][3] = color(random(0, .3), random(0, .3), random(0, .3));<br /> quadBG[i][4] = color(random(0, .4), random(0, .4), random(0, .4));<br /> quadBG[i][5] = color(random(0, .5), random(0, .5), random(0, .5));<br /><br /> // Cubies are randomly sized<br /> float cubieSizex = random(10, 250);<br /> float cubieSizey = random(10, 250);<br /> float cubieSizez = random(10, 250);<br /> c[i] = new Cube(cubieSizex, cubieSizey, cubieSizez);<br /><br /> // Initialize cubie's position, speed and rotation<br /> x[i] = random(-10, 10);<br /> y[i] = random(-10, 10);<br /> z[i] = random(-10, 10);<br /><br /> xSpeed[i] = random(-.25, .25);<br /> ySpeed[i] = random(-.25, .25); <br /> zSpeed[i] = random(-.25, .25); <br /><br /> xRot[i] = random(1000, 100000);<br /> yRot[i] = random(1000, 100000);<br /> zRot[i] = random(1000, 100000);<br /> }<br /> <br /> <br /> for (int i = 0; i < birdCount; i++){<br /> birds[i] = new Bird(random(-300, 300), random(-300, 300), random(-500, -2500), random(5, 30), random(5, 30)); <br /><br /> birdsx[i] = random(20, 340);<br /> birdsy[i] = random(30, 350);<br /> birdsz[i] = random(1000, 4800);<br /> birdsrx[i] = random(-160, 160);<br /> birdsry[i] = random(-55, 55);<br /> birdsrz[i] = random(-20, 20);<br /> birdsspd[i] = random(.1, 3.75);<br /> birdsrot[i] = random(.025, .15);<br /> }<br /> <br /> // Instantiate external large cube<br /> stage = new Cube(bounds, bounds, bounds);<br />}<br /><br />void draw(){<br /> background(random(0, .025));<br /> lights();<br /> renderGlobe();<br /> <br /> for (int i = 0; i < birdCount; i++){<br /> birds[i].setFlight(birdsx[i], birdsy[i], birdsz[i], birdsrx[i], birdsry[i], birdsrz[i]);<br /> birds[i].setWingSpeed(birdsspd[i]);<br /> birds[i].setRotSpeed(birdsrot[i]);<br /> birds[i].fly();<br /> }<br /> <br /> // Center in display window<br /> translate(width/2, height/2, -130);<br /> <br /> // Outer transparent cube<br /> noFill(); <br /> <br /> // Rotate everything, including external large cube<br /> rotateX(frameCount * 0.001);<br /> rotateY(frameCount * 0.002);<br /> rotateZ(frameCount * 0.001);<br /> stroke(255);<br /> <br /> // Move and rotate cubies<br /> for (int i = 0; i < cubies; i++){<br /> pushMatrix();<br /> translate(x[i], y[i], z[i]);<br /> rotateX(frameCount*PI/xRot[i]);<br /> rotateY(frameCount*PI/yRot[i]);<br /> rotateX(frameCount*PI/zRot[i]);<br /> noStroke();<br /> c[i].create(quadBG[i]);<br /> x[i] += xSpeed[i];<br /> y[i] += ySpeed[i];<br /> z[i] += zSpeed[i];<br /> popMatrix();<br /><br /> // Draw lines connecting cubbies<br /> stroke(0);<br /> if (i < cubies-1){<br /> line(x[i], y[i], z[i], x[i+1], y[i+1], z[i+1]);<br /> }<br /><br /> }<br />}<br /><br />// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />PImage bg;<br />PImage texmap;<br /><br />int sDetail = 35; // Sphere detail setting<br />float rotationX = 0;<br />float rotationY = 0;<br />float velocityX = 0;<br />float velocityY = 0;<br />float globeRadius = 450;<br />float pushBack = 0;<br /><br />float[] cx, cz, sphereX, sphereY, sphereZ;<br />float sinLUT[];<br />float cosLUT[];<br />float SINCOS_PRECISION = 0.5;<br />int SINCOS_LENGTH = int(360.0 / SINCOS_PRECISION);<br /><br />void renderGlobe() {<br /> pushMatrix();<br /> translate(width/2,height/2,-130);<br /> pushMatrix();<br /> noFill();<br /> stroke(255,200);<br /> strokeWeight(2);<br /> smooth();<br /> popMatrix();<br /> lights(); <br /> pushMatrix();<br /> rotateX( radians(-rotationX) ); <br /> rotateY( radians(270 - rotationY) );<br /> fill(200);<br /> noStroke();<br /> textureMode(IMAGE); <br /> texturedSphere(globeRadius, texmap);<br /> popMatrix(); <br /> popMatrix();<br /> rotationX += velocityX;<br /> rotationY += velocityY;<br /> velocityX *= 0.95;<br /> velocityY *= 0.95;<br /> <br /> // Implements mouse control (interaction will be inverse when sphere is upside down)<br /> if(mousePressed){<br /> velocityX += (mouseY-pmouseY) * 0.01;<br /> velocityY -= (mouseX-pmouseX) * 0.01;<br /> }<br />}<br /><br />void initializeSphere(int res)<br />{<br /> sinLUT = new float[SINCOS_LENGTH];<br /> cosLUT = new float[SINCOS_LENGTH];<br /><br /> for (int i = 0; i < SINCOS_LENGTH; i++) {<br /> sinLUT[i] = (float) Math.sin(i * DEG_TO_RAD * SINCOS_PRECISION);<br /> cosLUT[i] = (float) Math.cos(i * DEG_TO_RAD * SINCOS_PRECISION);<br /> }<br /><br /> float delta = (float)SINCOS_LENGTH/res;<br /> float[] cx = new float[res];<br /> float[] cz = new float[res];<br /> <br /> // Calc unit circle in XZ plane<br /> for (int i = 0; i < res; i++) {<br /> cx[i] = -cosLUT[(int) (i*delta) % SINCOS_LENGTH];<br /> cz[i] = sinLUT[(int) (i*delta) % SINCOS_LENGTH];<br /> }<br /> <br /> // Computing vertexlist vertexlist starts at south pole<br /> int vertCount = res * (res-1) + 2;<br /> int currVert = 0;<br /> <br /> // Re-init arrays to store vertices<br /> sphereX = new float[vertCount];<br /> sphereY = new float[vertCount];<br /> sphereZ = new float[vertCount];<br /> float angle_step = (SINCOS_LENGTH*0.5f)/res;<br /> float angle = angle_step;<br /> <br /> // Step along Y axis<br /> for (int i = 1; i < res; i++) {<br /> float curradius = sinLUT[(int) angle % SINCOS_LENGTH];<br /> float currY = -cosLUT[(int) angle % SINCOS_LENGTH];<br /> for (int j = 0; j < res; j++) {<br /> sphereX[currVert] = cx[j] * curradius;<br /> sphereY[currVert] = currY;<br /> sphereZ[currVert++] = cz[j] * curradius;<br /> }<br /> angle += angle_step;<br /> }<br /> sDetail = res;<br />}<br /><br />// Generic routine to draw textured sphere<br />void texturedSphere(float r, PImage t) <br />{<br /> int v1,v11,v2;<br /> r = (r + 100) * 0.2;<br /> beginShape(TRIANGLE_STRIP);<br /> texture(t);<br /> float iu=(float)(t.width-1)/(sDetail);<br /> float iv=(float)(t.height-1)/(sDetail);<br /> float u=0,v=iv;<br /> for (int i = 0; i < sDetail; i++) {<br /> vertex(0, -r, 0,u,0);<br /> vertex(sphereX[i]*r, sphereY[i]*r, sphereZ[i]*r, u, v);<br /> u+=iu;<br /> }<br /> vertex(0, -r, 0,u,0);<br /> vertex(sphereX[0]*r, sphereY[0]*r, sphereZ[0]*r, u, v);<br /> endShape(); <br /> <br /> // Middle rings<br /> int voff = 0;<br /> for(int i = 2; i < sDetail; i++) {<br /> v1=v11=voff;<br /> voff += sDetail;<br /> v2=voff;<br /> u=0;<br /> beginShape(TRIANGLE_STRIP);<br /> texture(t);<br /> for (int j = 0; j < sDetail; j++) {<br /> vertex(sphereX[v1]*r, sphereY[v1]*r, sphereZ[v1++]*r, u, v);<br /> vertex(sphereX[v2]*r, sphereY[v2]*r, sphereZ[v2++]*r, u, v+iv);<br /> u+=iu;<br /> }<br /> <br /> // Close each ring<br /> v1=v11;<br /> v2=voff;<br /> vertex(sphereX[v1]*r, sphereY[v1]*r, sphereZ[v1]*r, u, v);<br /> vertex(sphereX[v2]*r, sphereY[v2]*r, sphereZ[v2]*r, u, v+iv);<br /> endShape();<br /> v+=iv;<br /> }<br /> u=0;<br /> <br /> // Add the northern cap<br /> beginShape(TRIANGLE_STRIP);<br /> texture(t);<br /> for (int i = 0; i < sDetail; i++) {<br /> v2 = voff + i;<br /> vertex(sphereX[v2]*r, sphereY[v2]*r, sphereZ[v2]*r, u, v);<br /> vertex(0, r, 0,u,v+iv); <br /> u+=iu;<br /> }<br /> vertex(sphereX[voff]*r, sphereY[voff]*r, sphereZ[voff]*r, u, v);<br /> endShape();<br /> <br />}</font><br /><br /><b>bird.pde</b><br /><br /><font face='monospace'>class Bird {<br /> <br /> // Properties<br /> float offsetX, offsetY, offsetZ;<br /> float w, h;<br /> int bodyFill;<br /> int wingFill;<br /> float ang = 0, ang2 = 0, ang3 = 0, ang4 = 0;<br /> float radiusX = 120, radiusY = 200, radiusZ = 700;<br /> float rotX = 15, rotY = 10, rotZ = 5;<br /> float flapSpeed = 0.4;<br /> float rotSpeed = 0.1;<br /><br /> // Constructors<br /> Bird(){<br /> this(0, 0, 0, 60, 80);<br /> }<br /><br /> Bird(float offsetX, float offsetY, float offsetZ, float w, float h){<br /> this.offsetX = offsetX;<br /> this.offsetY = offsetY;<br /> this.offsetZ = offsetZ;<br /> this.h = h;<br /> this.w = w;<br /> bodyFill = color(random(0, .5), random(0, .5), random(0, .5));<br /> wingFill = color(random(0, .1), random(0, .1), random(0, .1));<br /> }<br /><br /> void setFlight(float radiusX, float radiusY, float radiusZ, <br /> float rotX, float rotY, float rotZ){<br /> this.radiusX = radiusX;<br /> this.radiusY = radiusY;<br /> this.radiusZ = radiusZ;<br /><br /> this.rotX = rotX;<br /> this.rotY = rotY;<br /> this.rotZ = rotZ;<br /> }<br /><br /> void setWingSpeed(float flapSpeed){<br /> this.flapSpeed = flapSpeed;<br /> }<br /><br /> void setRotSpeed(float rotSpeed){<br /> this.rotSpeed = rotSpeed;<br /> }<br /><br /> void fly() {<br /> pushMatrix();<br /> float px, py, pz;<br /> <br /> // Flight<br /> px = sin(radians(ang3)) * radiusX;<br /> py = cos(radians(ang3)) * radiusY;<br /> pz = sin(radians(ang4)) * radiusZ;<br /> <br /> translate(width/2 + offsetX + px, height/2 + offsetY+py, -700 + offsetZ+pz);<br /><br /> rotateX(sin(radians(ang2)) * rotX);<br /> rotateY(sin(radians(ang2)) * rotY);<br /> rotateZ(sin(radians(ang2)) * rotZ);<br /><br /> // Body<br /> fill(bodyFill);<br /> box(w/5, h, w/5);<br /><br /> // Left wing<br /> fill(wingFill);<br /> pushMatrix();<br /> rotateY(sin(radians(ang)) * 20);<br /> rect(0, -h/2, w, h);<br /> popMatrix();<br /><br /> // Right wing<br /> pushMatrix();<br /> rotateY(sin(radians(ang)) * -20);<br /> rect(-w, -h/2, w, h);<br /> popMatrix();<br /><br /> // Wing flap<br /> ang += flapSpeed;<br /> if (ang > 3) {<br /> flapSpeed*=-1;<br /> } <br /> if (ang < -3) {<br /> flapSpeed*=-1;<br /> }<br /><br /> // Ang's run trig functions<br /> ang2 += rotSpeed;<br /> ang3 += 1.25;<br /> ang4 += 0.55;<br /> popMatrix();<br /> }<br />}<br /><br /></font><br /><br /><b>cube.pde</b><br /><br /><font face='monospace'>// Custom Cube Class<br /><br />class Cube{<br /> PVector[] vertices = new PVector[24];<br /> float w, h, d;<br /><br /> // Default constructor<br /> Cube(){ }<br /><br /> // Constructor 2<br /> Cube(float w, float h, float d) {<br /> this.w = w;<br /> this.h = h;<br /> this.d = d;<br /><br /> // cube composed of 6 quads<br /> //front<br /> vertices[0] = new PVector(-w/2,-h/2,d/2);<br /> vertices[1] = new PVector(w/2,-h/2,d/2);<br /> vertices[2] = new PVector(w/2,h/2,d/2);<br /> vertices[3] = new PVector(-w/2,h/2,d/2);<br /> //left<br /> vertices[4] = new PVector(-w/2,-h/2,d/2);<br /> vertices[5] = new PVector(-w/2,-h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[6] = new PVector(-w/2,h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[7] = new PVector(-w/2,h/2,d/2);<br /> //right<br /> vertices[8] = new PVector(w/2,-h/2,d/2);<br /> vertices[9] = new PVector(w/2,-h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[10] = new PVector(w/2,h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[11] = new PVector(w/2,h/2,d/2);<br /> //back<br /> vertices[12] = new PVector(-w/2,-h/2,-d/2); <br /> vertices[13] = new PVector(w/2,-h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[14] = new PVector(w/2,h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[15] = new PVector(-w/2,h/2,-d/2);<br /> //top<br /> vertices[16] = new PVector(-w/2,-h/2,d/2);<br /> vertices[17] = new PVector(-w/2,-h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[18] = new PVector(w/2,-h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[19] = new PVector(w/2,-h/2,d/2);<br /> //bottom<br /> vertices[20] = new PVector(-w/2,h/2,d/2);<br /> vertices[21] = new PVector(-w/2,h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[22] = new PVector(w/2,h/2,-d/2);<br /> vertices[23] = new PVector(w/2,h/2,d/2);<br /> }<br /> void create(){<br /> // Draw cube<br /> for (int i=0; i<6; i++){<br /> beginShape(QUADS);<br /> for (int j=0; j<4; j++){<br /> vertex(vertices[j+4*i].x, vertices[j+4*i].y, vertices[j+4*i].z);<br /> }<br /> endShape();<br /> }<br /> }<br /> void create(color[]quadBG){<br /> // Draw cube<br /> for (int i=0; i<6; i++){<br /> fill(quadBG[i]);<br /> beginShape(QUADS);<br /> for (int j=0; j<4; j++){<br /> vertex(vertices[j+4*i].x, vertices[j+4*i].y, vertices[j+4*i].z);<br /> }<br /> endShape();<br /> }<br /> }<br />}<br /></font><br/><br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-2665182131010045908?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-86158089838555720422009-06-25T11:54:00.001-05:002009-06-25T11:54:57.235-05:00Los radios-celulares<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><font face='sans-serif'>¿Qué tan difícil es que cuando los radios-celulares utilizan el sistema de radio usen también el mismo sistema de llamar/contestar que cuando se llama como celular normal? Es decir, que en lugar de que el distinguidísimo usuario tenga que sostener su teléfono frente a su rostro y gritar para hablar pueda simplemente pegarlo a su orejita y hablar.<br/><br/>Analicemos la situación:<br/><br/>Radio: *clic* *crack* ¡GÜEY! ¡GÜEY!<br/>Fulano: *sosteniendo su teléfono de la mencionada forma y gritando como ya se apuntó* ¡SI! ¡ADELANTE! ¡SI!<br/>Radio: *clic* ¡GÜEY! ¡NO LLEGÓ EL PINCHE EMBARQUE, NO MAMES!<br/>Fulano: *paseándose* ¡LE DIJE A AQUEL CABRÓN QUE NO LA FUERA A CAGAR! ¡¿YA LE LLAMARON A GODINEZ?!<br/>Radio: *clic* ¡SI, GÜEY! ¡PERO NO MAMES!<br/><br/>Etc. Por el diálogo y el fino vocabulario de los personajes, se entiende que son ingenieros.<br/><br/>Se entenderá el disgusto que esto causa. Ahora, si se utilizara el radio-celular como un celular normal, la cosa sería así:<br/><br/>Fulano: *sosteniendo su teléfono como la gente* Bueno. ¡Le dije a aquel cabrón que no la fuera a cagar! ¡¿Ya le llamaron a Godinez?<br/><br/>¡Mucho mejor! Asi, cuando menos, nos ahorramos la mitad de la molestia y la perturbación. Creo yo que mi propuesta es 100% factible, y desconociendo el manejo de dichos telefonitos, no estoy seguro de que todos puedan usarse de tal forma, pero las posibilidades son dos:<br/><br/>1) Si se pueden usar de esa forma y los usuarios no lo hacen. Entonces, en lo que a mi respecta, pueden proceder a metérselos por el orificio corporal que encuentren más apropiado para dicho fin.<br/><br/>2) No se pueden usar de esa forma. Los fabricantes son unos idiotas que no piensan en la incomodidad de terceros y en el hecho de que tales artefactos pueden llegar a caer en manos de ingenieros mexicanos (¡el horror!).<br/><br/>He dicho.<br/></font><br/><br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-8615808983855572042?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-28188290070448246772009-06-06T01:02:00.001-05:002009-06-06T01:03:41.538-05:00Felices 25 años, Tetris<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img src='http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/144/3290557251fbb37d8c8.jpg'/><br/><br/>Has traído tanta felicidad a este mundo.<br /><br /><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/watz/329055725/'>Fuente de la imagen</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-2818829007044824677?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-5449638586187653602009-05-25T14:10:00.001-05:002009-05-25T14:10:17.038-05:00¡Feliz Día de la Toalla 2009!<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img src='http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6337/towelday.jpg'/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-544963858618765360?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-80920658306579594712009-05-22T10:05:00.001-05:002009-05-22T10:05:13.406-05:00Welcome Address, by Karl Paulnack<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>“One of my parents’ deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not properly value me as a musician, that I wouldn’t be appreciated. I had very good grades in high school, I was good in science and math, and they imagined that as a doctor or a research chemist or an engineer, I might be more appreciated than I would be as a musician. I still remember my mother’s remark when I announced my decision to apply to music school—she said, “you’re WASTING your SAT scores.” On some level, I think, my parents were not sure themselves what the value of music was, what its purpose was. And they LOVED music, they listened to classical music all the time. They just weren’t really clear about its function. So let me talk about that a little bit, because we live in a society that puts music in the “arts and entertainment” section of the newspaper, and serious music, the kind your kids are about to engage in, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with entertainment, in fact it’s the opposite of entertainment. Let me talk a little bit about music, and how it works.<br/> <br/>The first people to understand how music really works were the ancient Greeks. And this is going to fascinate you; the Greeks said that music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. Astronomy was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects. Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us. Let me give you some examples of how this works.<br/> <br/>One of the most profound musical compositions of all time is the Quartet for the End of Time written by French composer Olivier Messiaen in 1940. Messiaen was 31 years old when France entered the war against Nazi Germany. He was captured by the Germans in June of 1940, sent across Germany in a cattle car and imprisoned in a concentration camp.<br/> <br/>He was fortunate to find a sympathetic prison guard who gave him paper and a place to compose. There were three other musicians in the camp, a cellist, a violinist, and a clarinetist, and Messiaen wrote his quartet with these specific players in mind. It was performed in January 1941 for four thousand prisoners and guards in the prison camp. Today it is one of the most famous masterworks in the repertoire.<br/> <br/>Given what we have since learned about life in the concentration camps, why would anyone in his right mind waste time and energy writing or playing music? There was barely enough energy on a good day to find food and water, to avoid a beating, to stay warm, to escape torture—why would anyone bother with music? And yet—from the camps, we have poetry, we have music, we have visual art; it wasn’t just this one fanatic Messiaen; many, many people created art. Why? Well, in a place where people are only focused on survival, on the bare necessities, the obvious conclusion is that art must be, somehow, essential for life. The camps were without money, without hope, without commerce, without rec reation, without basic respect, but they were not without art. Art is part of survival; art is part of the human spirit, an unquenchable expression of who we are. Art is one of the ways in which we say, “I am alive, and my life has meaning.”<br/> <br/>On September 12, 2001 I was a resident of Manhattan. That morning I reached a new understanding of my art and its relationship to the world. I sat down at the piano that morning at 10 AM to practice as was my daily routine; I did it by force of habit, without thinking about it. I lifted the cover on the keyboard, and opened my music, and put my hands on the keys and took my hands off the keys. And I sat there and thought, does this even matter? Isn’t this completely irrelevant? Playing the piano right now, given what happened in this city yesterday, seems silly, absurd, irreverent, pointless. Why am I here? What place has a musician in this moment in time? Who needs a piano player right now? I was completely lost.<br/> <br/>And then I, along with the rest of New York, went through the journey of getting through that week. I did not play the piano that day, and in fact I contemplated briefly whether I would ever want to play the piano again. And then I observed how we got through the day.<br/> <br/>At least in my neighborhood, we didn’t shoot hoops or play Scrabble. We didn’t play cards to pass the time, we didn’t watch TV, we didn’t shop, we most certainly did not go to the mall. The first organized activity that I saw in New York, that same day, was singing. People sang. People sang around fire houses, people sang “We Shall Overcome”. Lots of people sang America the Beautiful. The first organized public event that I remember was the Brahms Requiem, later that week, at Lincoln Center, with the New York Philharmonic. The first organized public expression of grief, our first communal response to that historic event, was a concert. That was the beginning of a sense that life might go on. The US Military secured the airspace, but recovery was led by the arts, and by music in particular, that very night.<br/> <br/>From these two experiences, I have come to understand that music is not part of “arts and entertainment” as the newspaper section would have us believe. It’s not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets, not a plaything or an amusement or a pass time. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we cannot with our minds.<br/> <br/>Some of you may know Samuel Barber’s heartwrenchingly beautiful piece Adagio for Strings. If you don’t know it by that name, then some of you may know it as the background music which accompanied the Oliver Stone movie Platoon, a film about the Vietnam War. If you know that piece of music either way, you know it has the ability to crack your heart open like a walnut; it can make you cry over sadness you didn’t know you had. Music can slip beneath our conscious reality to get at what’s really going on inside us the way a good therapist does.<br/> <br/>I bet that you have never been to a wedding where there was absolutely no music. There might have been only a little music, there might have been some really bad music, but I bet you there was some music. And something very predictable happens at weddings—people get all pent up with all kinds of emotions, and then there’s some musical moment where the action of the wedding stops and someone sings or plays the flute or something. And even if the music is lame, even if the quality isn’t good, predictably 30 or 40 percent of the people who are going to cry at a wedding cry a couple of moments after the music starts. Why? The Greeks. Music allows us to move around those big invisible pieces of ourselves and rearrange our insides so that we can express what we feel even when we can’t talk about it. Can you imagine watching Indiana Jones or Superman or Star Wars with the dialogue but no music? What is it about the music swelling up at just the right moment in ET so that all the softies in the audience start crying at exactly the same moment? I guarantee you if you showed the movie with the music stripped out, it wouldn’t happen that way. The Greeks: Music is the understanding of the relationship between invisible internal objects.<br/> <br/>I’ll give you one more example, the story of the most important concert of my life. I must tell you I have played a little less than a thousand concerts in my life so far. I have played in places that I thought were important. I like playing in Carnegie Hall; I enjoyed playing in Paris; it made me very happy to please the critics in St. Petersburg. I have played for people I thought were important; music critics of major newspapers, foreign heads of state. The most important concert of my entire life took place in a nursing home in Fargo, ND, about 4 years ago.<br/> <br/>I was playing with a very dear friend of mine who is a violinist. We began, as we often do, with Aaron Copland’s Sonata, which was written during World War II and dedicated to a young friend of Copland’s, a young pilot who was shot down during the war. Now we often talk to our audiences about the pieces we are going to play rather than providing them with written program notes. But in this case, because we began the concert with this piece, we decided to talk about the piece later in the program and to just come out and play the music without explanation.<br/> <br/>Midway through the piece, an elderly man seated in a wheelchair near the front of the concert hall began to weep. This man, whom I later met, was clearly a soldier—even in his 70’s, it was clear from his buzz-cut hair, square jaw and general demeanor that he had spent a good deal of his life in the military. I thought it a little bit odd that someone would be moved to tears by that particular movement of that particular piece, but it wasn’t the first time I’ve heard crying in a concert and we went on with the concert and finished the piece.<br/> <br/>When we came out to play the next piece on the program, we decided to talk about both the first and second pieces, and we described the circumstances in which the Copland was written and mentioned its dedication to a downed pilot. The man in the front of the audience became so disturbed that he had to leave the auditorium. I honestly figured that we would not see him again, but he did come backstage afterwards, tears and all, to explain himself.<br/> <br/>What he told us was this: “During World War II, I was a pilot, and I was in an aerial combat situation where one of my team’s planes was hit. I watched my friend bail out, and watched his parachute open, but the Japanese planes which had engaged us returned and machine gunned across the parachute chords so as to separate the parachute from the pilot, and I watched my friend drop away into the ocean, realizing that he was lost. I have not thought about this for many years, but during that first piece of music you played, this memory returned to me so vividly that it was as though I was reliving it. I didn’t understand why this was happening, why now, but then when you came out to explain that this piece of music was written to commemorate a lost pilot, it was a little more than I could handle. How does the music do that? How did it find those feelings and those memories in me?”<br/> <br/>Remember the Greeks: music is the study of invisible relationships between internal objects. This concert in Fargo was the most important work I have ever done. For me to play for this old soldier and help him connect, somehow, with Aaron Copland, and to connect their memories of their lost friends, to help him remember and mourn his friend, this is my work. This is why music matters.<br/> <br/>What follows is part of the talk I will give to this year’s freshman class when I welcome them a few days from now. The responsibility I will charge your sons and daughters with is this:<br/> <br/>“If we were a medical school, and you were here as a med student practicing appendectomies, you’d take your work very seriously because you would imagine that some night at two AM someone is going to waltz into your emergency room and you’re going to have to save their life. Well, my friends, someday at 8 PM someone is going to walk into your concert hall and bring you a mind that is confused, a heart that is overwhelmed, a soul that is weary. Whether they go out whole again will depend partly on how well you do your craft.<br/> <br/>You’re not here to become an entertainer, and you don’t have to sell yourself. The truth is you don’t have anything to sell; being a musician isn’t about dispensing a product, like selling used Chevies. I’m not an entertainer; I’m a lot closer to a paramedic, a firefighter, a rescue worker. You’re here to become a sort of therapist for the human soul, a spiritual version of a chiropractor, physical therapist, someone who works with our insides to see if they get things to line up, to see if we can come into harmony with ourselves and be healthy and happy and well.<br/> <br/>Frankly, ladies and gentlemen, I expect you not only to master music; I expect you to save the planet. If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness, I don’t expect it will come from a government, a military force or a corporation. I no longer even expect it to come from the religions of the world, which together seem to have brought us as much war as they have peace. If there is a future of peace for humankind, if there is to be an understanding of how these invisible, internal things should fit together, I expect it will come from the artists, because that’s what we do. As in the concentration camp and the evening of 9/11, the artists are the ones who might be able to help us with our internal, invisible lives.”<br/><br/><a href='http://www.symphonymusicians.com/WelcomeAddressbyKarlPaulnack/tabid/87/Default.aspx'>Link original</a>.<br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-8092065830657959471?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-14306178927840231002009-05-14T00:31:00.002-05:002009-05-14T00:32:15.893-05:00Pulses<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><small><small><font face='monospace'>// PULSES<br/><br/>// By: Jorge Rangel - http://blog.jrangel.net - jarg1985[at]gmail[dot]com - Main code<br/><br/>// Licence<br/>// Creative Commons NC-BY-SA 3.0<br/><br/>[48, 50, 52, 55, 57, 60, 62, 64, 67, 69] @=> int melodynotes[];<br/>[24, 26, 28, 31, 33, 36, 38, 40, 43, 45] @=> int bassnotes[];<br/><br/>// Mono channel stuff...<br/><br/>SinOsc a;<br/>SinOsc b;<br/>JCRev rev;<br/>ADSR adsr;<br/><br/>adsr.set (250::ms, 50::ms, 1, 100::ms);<br/><br/>rev.mix (0.4);<br/>rev.gain (0.2);<br/><br/>a.gain (0.3);<br/>b.gain (0.5);<br/><br/>a => adsr => rev => dac;<br/>b => dac;<br/><br/>fun void notes()<br/>{<br/> if ( Std.rand2f(0,1) < 0.6 )<br/> {<br/> adsr.keyOff();<br/> Std.mtof(melodynotes[Std.rand2(0,melodynotes.cap()-1)]) => a.freq;<br/> adsr.keyOn();<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>fun void bass()<br/>{<br/> if ( Std.rand2f(0,1) < 0.6 )<br/> {<br/> Std.mtof(bassnotes[Std.rand2(0,bassnotes.cap()-1)]) => b.freq;<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>fun void melodyloop()<br/>{<br/> while (true)<br/> {<br/> notes();<br/> 250::ms => now;<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>fun void bassloop()<br/>{<br/> while (true)<br/> {<br/> bass();<br/> 500::ms => now;<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>// Left channel stuff...<br/><br/>SinOsc aleft;<br/>SinOsc bleft;<br/>JCRev revleft;<br/>ADSR adsrleft;<br/><br/>adsrleft.set (500::ms, 50::ms, 1, 250::ms);<br/><br/>revleft.mix (0.3);<br/>revleft.gain (0.2);<br/><br/>aleft.gain (0.7);<br/>bleft.gain (0.1);<br/><br/>aleft => adsrleft => revleft => dac.left;<br/>bleft => dac.left;<br/><br/>fun void notesleft()<br/>{<br/> if ( Std.rand2f(0,1) < 0.6 )<br/> {<br/> adsrleft.keyOff();<br/> Std.mtof(melodynotes[Std.rand2(0,melodynotes.cap()-1)]) => aleft.freq;<br/> adsrleft.keyOn();<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>fun void bassleft()<br/>{<br/> if ( Std.rand2f(0,1) < 0.6 )<br/> {<br/> Std.mtof(bassnotes[Std.rand2(0,bassnotes.cap()-1)]) => bleft.freq;<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>fun void melodyloopleft()<br/>{<br/> while (true)<br/> {<br/> notesleft();<br/> 500::ms => now;<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>fun void bassloopleft()<br/>{<br/> while (true)<br/> {<br/> bassleft();<br/> 1000::ms => now;<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>// Right channel stuff<br/><br/>SinOsc aright;<br/>SinOsc bright;<br/>JCRev revright;<br/>ADSR adsrright;<br/><br/>adsrright.set (500::ms, 50::ms, 1, 250::ms);<br/><br/>revright.mix (0.3);<br/>revright.gain (0.2);<br/><br/>aright.gain (0.7);<br/>bright.gain (0.1);<br/><br/>aright => adsrright => revright => dac.right;<br/>bright => dac.right;<br/><br/>fun void notesright()<br/>{<br/> if ( Std.rand2f(0,1) < 0.6 )<br/> {<br/> adsrright.keyOff();<br/> Std.mtof(melodynotes[Std.rand2(0,melodynotes.cap()-1)]) => aright.freq;<br/> adsrright.keyOn();<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>fun void bassright()<br/>{<br/> if ( Std.rand2f(0,1) < 0.6 )<br/> {<br/> Std.mtof(bassnotes[Std.rand2(0,bassnotes.cap()-1)]) => bright.freq;<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>fun void melodyloopright()<br/>{<br/> while (true)<br/> {<br/> notesright();<br/> 500::ms => now;<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>fun void bassloopright()<br/>{<br/> while (true)<br/> {<br/> bassright();<br/> 1000::ms => now;<br/> }<br/>}<br/><br/>spork ~ melodyloop();<br/>spork ~ bassloop();<br/>spork ~ melodyloopleft();<br/>spork ~ bassloopleft();<br/>spork ~ melodyloopright();<br/>spork ~ bassloopright();<br/><br/>while (true) 60::second => now;<br/><br/>// Pretty cool soundz, uh?<br/></font></small></small></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-1430617892784023100?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-77700827340131571832009-05-09T23:26:00.001-05:002009-05-09T23:26:56.529-05:00Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helicopter String Quartet<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>En 1991, el profesor Hans Landesmann le dijo a Stockhausen que si le escribía un cuarteto de cuerdas para ser presentado en el Festival de Salzburgo (Salzburger Festpiele). Stockhausen muy amablemente le contestó que francamente le daba mucha hueva escribir un cuarteto de cuerdas, así que declinó la oferta. Pero sucedió que una noche, después de cenar pesado (quiero creer), Stockhausen tuvo un sueño muy loco en el volaba por encima de cuatro helicópteros, cada uno llevando a un miembro de un cuarteto de cuerdas.<br /><br />Desde luego que semejante idea no podía desperdiciarse, así que se puso a hacer planes para poder llevar a cabo su sueño, así que entre 1992 y 1993 compuso el Cuarteto de cuerdas y helicópteros (Helikopter-Streichquartett). Al terminar la partitura se la mandó al profe Landesmann para que viera que tal. Tanto Landesmann como Gerard Mortier, director del Festival de Salzburgo, vieron la partitura con buenos ojos y le dieron luz verde al proyecto y negociaron con la armada austriaca para que les rentaran unos helicópteros. Pero como los ecologistas más radicales siempre gustan de echar a perder todas las cosas que hacen que valga la pena vivir en este mundo, dijeron que no, que como iban a contaminar el cielo interpretando la pieza de Stockhausen (¡!), lo que provocó que la premiere se cancelara. El caso es que finalmente se pudo interpretar por primera vez el 26 de junio de 1995, pero esa vez en el Festival de Holanda.<br /><br />Desde luego que interpretar esta pieza representa muchos problemas logísticos que hay que resolver, principalmente en lo que se trata de conseguir cuatro helicópteros para trepar un cuarteto de cuerdas. Cada helicóptero debe contar también con un técnico de audio/video para transmitir todo al teatro o foro donde oficialmente se está presentando la pieza y donde el público podrá ver todo desde el momento en que el cuarteto sale del escenario, hasta que sube en los helicópteros, interpretan la pieza y regresan al escenario. De cada helicóptero salen tres señales de audio: de la voz del intérprete, de su instrumento y del rotor del helicóptero, que actúa como acompañamiento para el cuarteto.<br /><br />Si después de leer sobre esta mariguanada les dan ganas de escuchar un cachito de sus poco más de 21 minutos de duración, aquí les dejo este video tan bello:<br /><br /><div class='youtube-video'><object height='344' width='425'><param value='http://www.youtube.com/v/g2qQ6UWbRVc&hl=es&fs=1' name='movie'> </param><param value='true' name='allowFullScreen'> </param><param value='always' name='allowscriptaccess'> </param><embed height='344' width='425' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/g2qQ6UWbRVc&hl=es&fs=1'> </embed></object></div><br /><br />¡Chaca chaca chaca chaca!<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=1db9295c-1c95-801e-8f76-c2656e3e667d' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-7770082734013157183?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-20680144726515748992009-05-04T14:19:00.001-05:002009-05-04T14:19:13.030-05:00Star Wars Day<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img src='http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2239/starwarsday.jpg'/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-2068014472651574899?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-60319985337749589992009-04-14T00:19:00.001-05:002009-04-14T00:19:45.514-05:00Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol Lewitt<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><blockquote><ol><li> Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. </li><li> Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. </li><li> Irrational judgements lead to new experience. </li><li> Formal art is essentially rational. </li><li> Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. </li><li> If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results. </li><li> The artist's will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His wilfulness may only be ego. </li><li> When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations. </li><li> The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept. </li><li> Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical. </li><li> Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected directions, but an idea must necessarily be completed in the mind before the next one is formed. </li><li> For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not. </li><li> A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind. </li><li> The words of one artist to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the same concept. </li><li> Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the artist may use any form, from an expression of words (written or spoken) to physical reality, equally. </li><li> If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics. </li><li> All ideas are art if they are concerned with art and fall within the conventions of art. </li><li> One usually understands the art of the past by applying the convention of the present, thus misunderstanding the art of the past. </li><li> The conventions of art are altered by works of art. </li><li> Successful art changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions. </li><li> Perception of ideas leads to new ideas. </li><li> The artist cannot imagine his art, and cannot perceive it until it is complete. </li><li> The artist may misperceive (understand it differently from the artist) a work of art but still be set off in his own chain of thought by that misconstrual. </li><li> Perception is subjective. </li><li> The artist may not necessarily understand his own art. His perception is neither better nor worse than that of others. </li><li> An artist may perceive the art of others better than his own. </li><li> The concept of a work of art may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made. </li><li> Once the idea of the piece is established in the artist's mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. There are many side effects that the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works. </li><li> The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course. </li><li> There are many elements involved in a work of art. The most important are the most obvious. </li><li> If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist's concept involved the material. </li><li> Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution. </li><li> It is difficult to bungle a good idea. </li><li> When an artist learns his craft too well he makes slick art. </li><li> These sentences comment on art, but are not art. </li></ol></blockquote><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=e2c9b120-1a5b-8ac5-b1e4-3e45276cc910' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-6031998533774958999?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-30279670605481375632009-03-30T00:36:00.001-06:002009-03-30T00:36:48.200-06:00Los ingenieros no saben escribir<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Y después de estudiar una ingeniería durante cuatro años y medio creo que sé algo al respecto. La gran mayoría de los ingenieros que he conocido (muchos de ellos profesores en la carrera) parecieran buscar siempre la oportunidad de sacar a relucir sus pésimas habilidades redactoras, y nos ofrecen apuntes y garabatos de pintarrón repletos y bien surtidos de faltas de ortografía, impropiedades, pleonasmos, barbarismos, redundancias y demás fauna que se ve maravillosa en los apuntes para el exámen.<br/>Pero el problema no son los profes que se avientan sus horrores en el pintarrón, sino los supuestos autores consagrados y gurús (palabra sumamente sangrona que se utiliza para todos aquellos personajes que son tan pésimos en sus disciplinas que mejor escriben sobre ellas en lugar de ponerse a hacer algo). Si alguno de ustedes, mis queridos dos lectores y medio, ha tenido la desfortuna de verse obligado a leer un libro dedicado a CUALQUIERA de las ramas de la ingeniería, se dará cuenta de que todos comparten un estilo semejante: el de la persona que sencillamente no sabe expresarse por escrito.<br/>¿A qué se debe que los ingenieros no sepan escribir? Tal vez a que la gran mayoría de ellos tampoco sabe leer muy bien que digamos, o que solamente leen los arribamencionados libros. Seamos sinceros, es muy poco probable que un estudiante promedio de ingeniería (pantalón de mezclilla, botas, playera, cachucha de trailero y cara de que anda crudo) tenga entre sus hobbies el leer algo además de revistas deportivas o porno.<br/>En fin, a estas horas de la noche ya no carburo bien así que perdonen cualquier vicio del lenguaje, error estilístico u ofensa que cualquiera perciba en este malintencionado texto. Y si eres un ingeniero... lee, no todo en la vida es alcohol.<br/>Prometo que a partir de hoy postearé más seguido. Me encantaría ver sus rostros ilusionados y felices tras leer el enunciado anterior.<br/>Pim pum cuaz!<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=8798c02c-1299-864a-8e43-94c35d93a252' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-3027967060548137563?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-40009918155862382162009-03-24T23:39:00.001-06:002009-03-24T23:39:41.708-06:00Radiohead - Foro Sol, 15 de Marzo de 2009<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>El pasado 15 de Marzo, tuve la oportunidad de ver y escuchar en vivo, por primera vez, a mi banda viva favorita: Radiohead. El concierto puede ser considerado casi histórico, después de los 15 años que tenían sin poner un pie en este país y por venir acompañados de otra gran banda con una gran trayectoria e influencia: Kraftwerk.<br /><br />El set list:<br /><br />Kraftwerk<br />1. Kling Klang / Intro<br />2. Man Machine<br />3. Numbers<br />4. Computer World<br />5. Showroom Dummies<br />6. The Model<br />7. Tour de France<br />8. Autobahn<br />9. Trans-Europe Express<br />10. Radio Activity<br />11. Boing Boom Tschak / Music Non-Stop<br /><br />Radiohead<br />1. 15 Step<br />2. Airbag<br />3. There There<br />4. All I Need<br />5. Nude<br />6. Arpeggi<br />7. The Gloaming<br />8. The National Anthem<br />9. Faust Arp<br />10. No Surprises<br />11. Jigsaw Falling Into Place<br />12. Lucky<br />13. Reckoner<br />14. Optimistic<br />15. Idioteque<br />16. Fake Plastic Trees<br />17. Bodysnatchers<br />-encore-<br />18. Videotape<br />19. Paranoid Android<br />20. House of Cards<br />21. My Iron Lung<br />22. Street Spirit (fade out)<br />-encore-<br />23. Pyramid Song<br />24. Just<br />25. Everything In Its Right Place<br /><br />Un concierto sencillamente genial.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=7449de95-a90e-4012-96d0-264176a3cee0' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-4000991815586238216?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-33506538871152653662009-03-08T17:38:00.001-06:002009-03-08T17:38:04.809-06:00World Builder<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div class='youtube-video'><object width='400' height='225'><param value='true' name='allowfullscreen'> </param><param value='always' name='allowscriptaccess'> </param><param value='http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3365942&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1' name='movie'> </param><embed width='400' height='225' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3365942&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1'> </embed> </object></div><br /><a href='http://vimeo.com/3365942'>World Builder</a> from <a href='http://vimeo.com/user1349603'>Bruce Branit</a> on <a href='http://vimeo.com'>Vimeo</a>.<br /><br />Genial. Gracias a <a href='http://twitter.com/kittysgirl'>Andrea</a> por compartirlo.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=a9e1d0bf-d02c-4d56-b33e-54c7493c9bee' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-3350653887115265366?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-53243911173121255732009-02-14T15:51:00.000-06:002009-02-14T15:52:30.629-06:00De Julio Cortázar, el Capítulo 7 de "Rayuela"Toco tu boca, con un dedo todo el borde de tu boca, voy dibujándola como si saliera de mi mano, como si por primera vez tu boca se entreabriera, y me basta cerrar los ojos para deshacerlo todo y recomenzar, hago nacer cada vez la boca que deseo, la boca que mi mano elige y te dibuja en la cara, una boca elegida entre todas, con soberana libertad elegida por mí para dibujarla con mi mano en tu cara, y que por un azar que no busco comprender coincide exactamente con tu boca que sonríe por debajo de la que mi mano te dibuja.<br /><br />Me miras, de cerca me miras, cada vez más de cerca y entonces jugamos al cíclope, nos miramos cada vez más cerca y los ojos se agrandan, se acercan entre sí, se superponen y los cíclopes se miran, respirando confundidos, las bocas se encuentran y luchan tibiamente, mordiéndose con los labios, apoyando apenas la lengua en los dientes, jugando en sus recintos, donde un aire pesado va y viene con un perfume viejo y un silencio. Entonces mis manos buscan hundirse en tu pelo, acariciar lentamente la profundidad de tu pelo mientras nos besamos como si tuviéramos la boca llena de flores o de peces, de movimientos vivos, de fragancia oscura. Y si nos mordemos el dolor es dulce, y si nos ahogamos en un breve y terrible absorber simultáneo del aliento, esa instantánea muerte es bella. Y hay una sola saliva y un solo sabor a fruta madura, y yo te siento temblar contra mí como una luna en el agua.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-5324391117312125573?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-87443916471232808142009-02-10T15:31:00.001-06:002009-02-10T15:34:32.372-06:00Jorge Reyes (1952-2009)Descanse en paz, <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Reyes">el Maestro</a>... uno de los pilares del rock progresivo en México.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40699232@N00/3269624181"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1365/3269624181_8bf739642f.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40699232@N00/3269624181">Foto de HyppolyteBayard, en Flickr</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-8744391647123280814?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-40352023904680822882009-02-09T23:53:00.000-06:002009-02-09T23:53:00.701-06:00Los diez principios del diseño de Dieter Rams<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><blockquote>1. Good design is innovative.<br /><br />2. Good design makes a product useful.<br /><br />3. Good design is aesthetic.<br /><br />4. Good design makes a product understandable.<br /><br />5. Good design is honest.<br /><br />6. Good design is unobtrusive.<br /><br />7. Good design is long-lasting.<br /><br />8. Good design is thorough down to the last detail.<br /><br />9. Good design is environmentally friendly.<br /><br />10. Good design is as little design as possible.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href='http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0204/ram/'>Más información</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-4035202390468082288?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-61412357731239530982009-02-06T00:07:00.001-06:002009-02-06T00:08:40.911-06:00El tri (no la banda de rock urbanoide, la seleccionzuela de futbol de México)<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Encuentro sumamente preocupante la admiración (casi adoración) del pueblo mexicano por su representante futbolístico, La Selección Mexicana de Futbol. Y no solamente porque ya no me guste el futbol (que me gustaba hace años hasta que maduré y me di cuenta de que la vida esta llena de miles de cosas que sí son trascendentes), en realidad esta idolatría que se ejerce con El Tricolor es absurda desde donde la veamos, y por momentos da la impresión de ser un reflejo de la misma mediocridad del mexicano promedio.<br/><br/>Simplemente echémosle una miradita rápida el objeto de la idolatría: se trata de un equipo de futbol que jamás ha ganado algo sobresaliente, que nunca ha tenido un logro que pase a la historia, repleto de jugadores que ni siquiera nacieron en México, en este momento siendo dirigido por alguien que tampoco es mexicano, un equipo deportivo cuya camiseta es un símbolo del "ya merito", una exaltación del "si se puede" (frase condescendiente que estoy seguro que nunca han aplicado al equipo de Brasil sus seguidores, por poner un ejemplo solamente), una víctima siempre en todas y cada una de las competencias en las que tiene el descaro de presentarse.<br/><br/>En pocas palabras, el pueblo mexicano ama, apoya y se enorgullece con un equipo que no es mas que un alarde de mediocridad sin límites, un equipo que colecciona derrota, tras derrota, tras derrota siempre concluyendo sabiamente que "para la otra será", que "perdimos pero jugamos bien". No, imbécil, si pierdes no lo hiciste bien, punto.<br/><br/>¿Cuáles son las razones para que este equipo perdedor sea tan amado en México? Reitero aquello de la proyección, el mexicano promedio se identifica en la derrota, al ver a los jugadores destrozados, a su camiseta mancillada y a su equipo eliminado de la competencia (cualquiera que esta sea, siempre son eliminados), el seguidor de El Tricolor se ve a si mismo, a su propia derrota y su propia mediocridad, a su propia ilusión pisoteada por la triste realidad de que es un personaje chiquito e indefenso. De la misma forma, cuando el seguidor del Tri tiene la suerte de gritar "Gol" (gesto por demás cargado de simbolismos, aunque no menos patético) se proyecta a través de su grito y por un instante siente que ni él ni su equipo son unos harapos de mediocridad, se siente victorioso, ese 3 a 1 (en contra) por un instante la sabe a victoria, a gloria, a trascendencia. El mexicano se pierde a si mismo y se olvida de que en cualquier momento lo despedirán del trabajo, de que no ha pagado las tarjetas de crédito, de que debe dos meses de renta, de que su esposa está embarazada y no saben con qué le darán de comer al niño que viene en camino, que el TLC nos tiene empinados o que en cualquier momento le llaman por teléfono para extorsionarlo.<br/><br/>El mexicano sueña. Por un instante, sueña lo que nunca será, sueña lo que jamás podrá lograr si no es gritando "gol".<br/><br/>El mexicano, sueña.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-6141235773123953098?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-11421079119407072382009-02-02T19:42:00.001-06:002009-02-02T19:42:52.588-06:00Quentin Tarantino mocked me...<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><blockquote>I read it when I was a bit older simply wanting to read something I knew my sisters held very dear from when they were young.<br /><br />A funny story about that. Quentin Tarantino mocked me for having read the book.<br /><br />I had the odd opportunity of meeting Quentin Tarantino. He was promoting his movie Jackie Brown on a show that a family member of mine happened to work on. I was invited to watch and went because a close friend of mine really wanted to meet him. After the show my friend was introduced while I stood in the corner. My family member asked if I wanted to ask Tarantino anything and I was embarrassed couldn't think of anything so I asked, "what are you reading right now"? I was a teenager what can I say? He went through a large list of authors I'd never heard before. Again I was just a teenager at the time. It's not like I could have expected to discuss Deluze or anything with him. He then asked me what I was reading and unfortunately I had just finished "A wrinkle in time". After I told him he looked at me and then exclaimed condescendingly with arms stretched out, "I never read that book, no actually I think I had that book read to me by my 3rd grade teach Mrs. ..." and he made a snarky laugh to everyone in the room.<br /><br />Not one to be humiliated I struck back and made some snide comment, something along the lines that he could learn something from the book as his films truly were pulp fiction without much depth and that they depended upon and contained excessive cheap violence. I was more succinct about it than that though.<br /><br />And then something strange happened. Tarantino looked hurt. I actually felt sorry for him at that moment, as if I perhaps had been a little too mean. I looked up at him (the guy's fucking huge) and he bowed his head in shame and looked at me and started talking in a very quiet voice, "You know a lot of people criticize me for the violence in my films and I...." and he continued speaking for a few minutes in an insecure way talking about his work and then sharing some very strange details about his life.<br /><br />He said he didn't know why his films had so much violence in them. He then said he thought it might be because he didn't know his father and that his mother always had boyfriends over at the apartment or house and some of them were violent. And I stood mesmerized thinking I got all of this out of him after speaking about two sentences with the man! And then almost as soon as he opened up about it all his manager was rushing him out for kickboxing practice or something.<br /><br />And ever since I've looked at his work from that psychological perspective. His works tend to have an exalted female hero who is often struggling to overcome her relationship with an abusive or powerful man. His films also have narratives that deal heavily with defining masculinity. Kill Bill certainly seemed a bit more interesting after thinking about what he had told me.<br /><br />And I can thank "A Wrinkle in Time" for all of this, else our conversation would have been like any other meet and greet.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href='http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/7u4xl/just_curious_have_any_of_you_read_a_wrinkle_in/c07eze8'>Link</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-1142107911940707238?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-80597278757844562562009-01-10T14:33:00.001-06:002009-01-10T14:35:38.573-06:00El Desmadre de la Gente<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Pues déjenme les cuento que el día de ayer, el <a href='http://www.coahuila.gob.mx/hub.php'>GOBIERNO DE LA GENTE</a> llegó a mi colonia con un programa que tenía como finalidad embellecer la misma. Ajá.<br/><br/>Repavimentaron, limpiaron, regalaron pintura para las casas, están arreglando los dos parques cercanos, entre otras cosas dentro de la misma vena (¿cava?).<br/><br/>El caso es que el carro de mi papá estaba estacionado frente a la casa y cuando iban a empezar a pavimentar (cosa que yo no sabía que harían) fue en un momento en que yo no me encontraba ahí, así que tomaron la sabia decisión de mover el carro con una grúa sin dejar ni un jodido aviso de ello, lo que causó alarma en mí al darme cuenta de que no estaba en su lugar, cuando regresé.<br/><br/>Me puse a investigar entre los que andaban trabajando por ahí, topándome con gente de lo más mamona que nada más le daba vuelta al asunto. En fin, resultó que el carro estaba a dos cuadras de mi casa, junto con una desagradable sorpresa, el Putazo de la Gente:<br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarbear/3185011465/' title='Imagen327 by J. Rangel, on Flickr'><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3520/3185011465_338ef9f1b0.jpg' width='500' height='375' alt='Imagen327'/></a><br/><br/>Cabe destacar también el trabajo realizado en lo que respecta a renovar señalizaciones y nombres de calles, la Mexicanada de la Gente:<br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarbear/3185012859/' title='Imagen331 by J. Rangel, on Flickr'><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3325/3185012859_dc9ef49507.jpg' width='500' height='375' alt='Imagen331'/></a><br/><br/>Y el excelente trabajo de limpieza, el Mugrero de la Gente:<br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarbear/3185023325/' title='Imagen333 by J. Rangel, on Flickr'><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3370/3185023325_660aec9457.jpg' width='500' height='375' alt='Imagen333'/></a><br/><br/>Estas dos últimas fotos fueron tomadas sin alejarme siquiera un metro de la entrada de mi casa.<br/><br/><b>¡Gracias, GOBIERNO DE LA GENTE!</b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-8059727875784456256?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-81475673603740697312009-01-08T21:33:00.001-06:002009-01-10T13:11:29.802-06:00Vean que chistoso correo me llegó hoy<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><blockquote>DEDICADO A LOS AMANTES DEL ROCK Y A LOS ENEMIGOS DEL MISMO…<br/><br/><br/><br/>Meses atrás me ha llegado un comunicado a mi correo electrónico generado por un reggaetonero que acudiendo a falsas apreciaciones ha blasfemado de la familia del ROCK, diciendo…<br/><br/>Que nuestras mujeres son feas y no se diferencian de los hombres… Falso, son muy bellas y tienen algo que las reggaetoneras no tienen: PERSONALIDAD y ESTILO, no son copia una de otra.<br/><br/>Que somos unos aburridos antisociales… FALSO! el caso de que no estemos de baile en baile y de borrachera en borrachera, no quiere decir que no nos sepamos divertir, somos de pensamiento individual, NO PERTENECEMOS A LA 'MASA'.<br/><br/>Que sus representantes gozan de mejor voz que la de nuestros artistas… FALSO!!!!! Porque la mayoria de nosotros SOMOS MUSICOS ESTUDIADOS!… ¿Quién iguala los quiebres de voz de Axl Rose de GNR?, ¿Cuál de ellos ha podido cantar al igual que Bon Jovi, o Bono de U2?<br/><br/>No nos digamos mentiras…<br/><br/>El reggaeton es muy joven… tiene unos 8 años en Venezuela, mientras que las bandas escuela del ROCK se generaron cuando ni sus depravados artistas viajaban en las gónadas de sus progenitores.<br/><br/>La historia de Queen nadie la puede igualar, el género impuesto por Zeppelín, o Sabbath.<br/><br/>Tenemos muchas ramas de nuestra música.<br/><br/>Desde el depresivo Grunge…<br/><br/>Hasta el acelerado Power Metal…<br/><br/>¿Cómo quieren igualar su 'música' con la nuestra si ni instrumentos tienen!!!!<br/><br/>Que no gozamos de su 'tecnología'… FALSO! Solo Usan computadoras y sonidos electrónicos, mientras que nosotros gozamos de una batería, un bajo, una guitarra (el alma del rock), un teclado, y en algunos casos hasta Violines y Flautas!!<br/><br/>Ahora, dijo ese… reggaetonero (no acudo a insultos, puesto que al ser reggaetonero se ha humillado lo suficiente)<br/><br/>Dijo que somos homosexuales,<br/><br/>Por Dios!!!, si los rockeros han llevado a la cama a mas mujeres en un día que ellos en una semana!!<br/><br/>Por ejemplo, ¿cuántas mujeres no han visitado la cama de Bret Michaels de Poison, o de Gene Simmons de Kiss?<br/><br/>Nos llaman homosexuales,por el hecho de que, a diferencia de ellos, no nos gusta ir a 'fiestas' a 'recostarle el toston',(ya que no tienen la suficiente hombria para conquistar a una mujer de verdad) a Carajitas que han tirado su dignidad al nivel de dejarse llamar PERRAS.<br/><br/>No peleen más…<br/><br/>Quédense ustedes en su mundo de depravación y letras vacías que nosotros en nuestro medio estamos bien.<br/><br/>OTRO DETALLE…<br/><br/>¿Por qué se creen mejor que nosotros?<br/><br/>Dijo este 'personaje' que ellos admiraban la belleza de la mujer latina.<br/><br/>Patrañas!!!<br/><br/>Ellos solo hablan de mujeres que lo den rápido y fácil, en otras palabras, prostitutas de bajo costo.<br/><br/>Pasando a otro tema, el resonar mundial de este género degenerado, no es mucho, o díganme, ¿Cuál reggaetonero ha sido la banda sonora de una película?, o por ejemplo, ¿Cuándo han superado la cantidad asistentes a un estadio como lo han hecho bandas leyenda como The Beatles, o Queen, o el propio Iron Maiden?<br/><br/>¿Cuándo han hecho una canción cuyo nombre llene el corazón de sus aficionados?, como 'November Rain' de Guns And Roses, 'I don´t wanna miss a thing' de Aerosmith, 'Friends will be friends' de Queen<br/><br/>¿Porque no citamos nombres de sus canciones y partes de sus letras??<br/><br/>'Just like sexo', 'hagamos sexo con ropa', 'tocarte toa',<br/><br/>Ah, he oído que piensan que somos satánicos, ROTUNDAMENTE FALSO!!!!! Porque los generos del Rock abarcan tantos aspectos que hasta hay ROCK CRISTIANO!<br/><br/>Y ademas que 'menos satanico' puede llegar a ser una musica en donde se habla de cosas como: LUJURIA,FORNICACION y ADULTERIO?<br/><br/>Entonces, dejen ese miedo, que nosotros no somos nada de eso, es mas, somos mas gente que ustedes, porque solo representan una gran mancha en Latinoamérica, el resto del mundo esta dominado POR NOSOTROS, en Venezuela, los rockeros somos demasiados, diría yo que muchísimos, pero estamos muy regados, no somos masas amontonadas, por ejemplo, de 5 personas de un parche, mas o menos 2 son rockeros, mejor dicho, somos mas y mejores que ustedes...<br/><br/>Ah, dijo que somos unos drogadictos …<br/><br/>¿Acaso no oyeron que el que es libre de culpa, que lance la primera piedra?<br/><br/>Acepto fielmente que muchos de nuestros representantes han caído en las drogas, y hasta muerto por ellas,pero ¿acaso el tal 'Don Omar' no ha caminado por el camino del vicio? Sabian que este, 'El King'del reggaeton no puede entrar en estados unidos porque lo buscan por Narco traficante?<br/><br/>Otra cosa que me fastidia de ustedes es que sus artistas solamente viven echándose flores a si mismos, vanagloriándose, y hablando de forma ofensiva y discriminativa hacia los demás.<br/><br/>Cuando el Rock te habla de Libertad el Reggaeton te habla de Drogas,Asesinatos y mujeres;todo lleno de malas palabras y un asco de vocablos como 'los reyes del perreo', se hacen llamar de una forma ridícula, o ¿Qué les representa los extraterrestres?<br/><br/>Pacemos a la comparación de nombres…<br/><br/><br/>Nombres del ROCK VS Nombres del reggaeton<br/><br/>Kiss (beso) VS Wisin y Yandel ¿que es eso?<br/><br/>Placebo (síntomas de un paciente pueden mejorar con un 'falso' tratamiento) VS Daddy Yankee ¿Papi Yankee?<br/><br/>Nirvana (estado de extasis espiritual) VS Don Omar ¿El de la tienda?<br/><br/>Se ha dicho que son rama del Reggae, eso no es cierto, el Reggae se ha desarrollado con sudor y sangre desde un punto religioso, adorando la vida, el placer y la paz, elaborado por los mismos rastas, una cultura basta y compleja, como para que vengan a pordebajearlos diciendo que son el origen del reggaeton, véanlo, de esta manera: ustedes son una mezcla callejera, de unos gamines desocupados acostumbrados a ver prostitutas en calles de mala muerte, crearon un ritmo, vacío y que no varía en ninguna de sus canciones, ese pun, chis pun chis pun, no pueden gozar de diversos instrumentos y musicalizacion;porque no los tienen!!!.<br/><br/>¿Cuando pueden ellos disfrutar algo como un solo de guitarra o batería?, ¿Cuándo pueden apreciar ellos un toque de un guitarrista como Slash, Hendrix , o Steve Vai?<br/><br/>LA GRAN DIFERENCIA: Cuando suena una canción de Rock vieja, estilo Stairway to Heaven, el rockero la disfruta, porque entra entre los clásicos, pero...suena un reggaeton mas o menos viejo en una fiesta, como 'mayor que yo' Y DE UNA LO ABUCHEAN después de Alguna vez haberlo adorado tanto.<br/><br/>Porqué no se hacen a la idea de que nuestra musica es mejor y no lo pueden igualar!!<br/><br/>¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡EL ROCK ES ARTE!!!!!!!!!!!!<br/><br/>Bueno ahora cada rockero que lea esto, si en verdad lleva esta música en su corazón que lo reenvie y hagamos una lista para que ellos vean cuantos somos... y que tal si le recomendamos 1 cancioncita a ver que tal! Y así ven que las de nosotros no insultan a nuestras mujeres!!!</blockquote><br/><br/>Me dan ternura los "rockeros".</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-8147567360374069731?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-56196130337144303282008-12-27T18:52:00.000-06:002008-12-27T18:52:00.536-06:00Desde Sabinas<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Ya tengo una semana de vacaciones en Sabinas, tiempo durante el cual me la he pasado escuchando los carros pasar frente a la casa de mi abue, cumbias por todos lados, norteñas por todos lados, reggaetones por todos lados y el constante pregón del freudiano Circo de la Anaconda.<br/><br/>Navidad sin pena ni gloria (tal vez una poco más de pena que gloria), y el pueblo demuestra una vez más que es aburrido y culturalmente muerto. Nunca perderé la esperanza de que algún día la ciudad progrese en otros aspectos diferentes al consumismo idiota.<br/><br/>Me traje mi cámara con la esperanza de tomar fotos interesantes de la ciudad, cosa que todos los días postergo gracias a mi gran capacidad para la decidia y la procrastinación. Y a que en esta ciudad no hay muchas cosas a las cuales tomarles foto.<br/><br/>Por alguna razón que (no) desconozco, esta Navidad me ha causado muy poco entusiasmo. En fin.<br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-5619613033714430328?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-7488975891182743282008-12-15T23:42:00.001-06:002008-12-16T23:09:46.008-06:00Merree Xmas, Mixtape Navideño, Edición 2008<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Al <a href='http://blog.jrangel.net/2007/12/nochebuena-edicin-2007_521.html'>igual que hace un año</a>, he armado un CD doble de música navideña.<br/><br/><b><big><a href='http://rapidshare.com/files/173787270/Merree_Xmas_2008_blog.jrangel.net.zip.html'>DESCARGAR</a>.</big></b><br/><b><a href='http://www.deepskylabs.com/files/Merree_Xmas_2008_blog.jrangel.net.zip'>Mirror</a></b> - Millones de gracias a Victor Hugo (quirp) de Deep Sky Labs<br/><br/>Tracklist:<br/><br/>CD01<br/>01. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Linus And Lucy<br/>02. African Christmas - White Christmas.<br/>03. Jehtro Tull - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen [Instrumental]<br/>04. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - O Come All Ye Faithful - O Holy Night<br/>05. Jef Beck - Amazing Grace<br/>06. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Danse Of The Sugar Plum Fairies<br/>07. Brian Setzer Orchestra - Jingle Bells (instrumental)<br/>08. Lost Acapulco - Noche de Paz<br/>09. Cuba L.A. - Deck The Halls (Cuba)<br/>10. Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer<br/>11. nullsleep - silent night<br/>12. Sy Mann - Angels We Have Heard On High<br/>13. Tommy Shaw and Others - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)<br/>14. Alex Lifeson - The Little Drummer Boy<br/>15. Sufjan Stevens - Joy To The World!<br/><br/>CD02<br/>01. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Hark, The Herald Angels Sing<br/>02. Elvis Presley - Silent Night<br/>03. Frank Sinatra - The Little Drummer Boy<br/>04. Oscar Peterson - White Christmas<br/>05. The Childen's Choir - We Three Kings<br/>06. Ray Charles - The Spirit Of Christmas<br/>07. Glenn Miller - Yuletide Medley #1 (Oh Holy Night/Joy To The World/Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem/Deck The Halls)<br/>08. Dr. Seuss - Welcome Christmas<br/>09. Ferrante & Teicher and Les Baxter - Sleigh Ride<br/>10. Esquivel! - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town<br/>11. Bing Crosby - Here Comes Santa Claus<br/>12. The Living Guitars - Oh Christmas Tree/Deck The Halls<br/>13. Jimmy Smith - Jingle Bells<br/>14. John Coltrane - Greensleeves<br/>15. Brian Setzer Orchestra - Winter Wonderland<br/>16. Glenn Miller - Yuletide Medley #2 (Oh Christmas Tree/It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/We Three Kings/What Child Is This)<br/><br/>Próximamente subiré el mixtape del año pasado, para que estén ambos disponibles.<br/><br/>(Si alguien puede hacer un mirror del archivo le estaría grandemente agradecido).</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-748897589118274328?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-45194158833301700882008-12-15T22:53:00.001-06:002008-12-15T22:53:35.592-06:00El Taller de la Caballeriza<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Quienes me conocen saben que las últimas semanas, aproximadamente desde finales de Octubre, estoy participando en un colectivo artístico interdisciplinario con sede en Casa Purcell, llamado <a href='http://caballeriza.blogspot.com'>El Taller de la Caballeriza</a>.<br /><br /><blockquote>El Taller de la Caballeriza es un colectivo de arte interdisciplinario con sede en el Centro Cultural Casa Purcell de Saltillo, Coahuila, México. Reúne a músicos, teatristas, animadores culturales, artistas plásticos, videastas, fotógrafos, cocineros y poetas en torno a productos y procesos creativos identificados bajo el rubro general de poesía visual, sonora y activa: poesía en tránsito. El taller fue creado a finales de octubre de 2008. Sus bases estéticas se sustentan en dos principios:<br /><br />1.- La capacidad transretórica de la poesía: la posibilidad de crear efectos poéticos mediante soportes alternativos, géneros híbridos y materia poética no textual.<br />2.- La descripción del ámbito poético como realidad sintética, simultánea, múltiple, móvil.</blockquote><br /><br />Nuestra primer actividad en público ha sido la presentación del Anuario de Poesía Mexicana 2007, la cual se llevó a cabo en el Centro Cultural Casa Purcell el pasado sábado, y que consistió en una lectura de poemas un tanto diferente, dejando bastante claro que se trata de un colectivo interdisciplinario (poetas, músicos, actores, cocineros, diseñadores, artistas plásticos...).<br /><br />El Taller apenas está empezando, pronto vendrán muchas más actividades y proyectos, los cuales se irán publicando en <a href='http://caballeriza.blogspot.com/'>nuestro blog</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-4519415883330170088?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-90005431102907989112008-12-13T14:29:00.001-06:002008-12-13T14:29:34.437-06:00Julián Herbert - 2 poemas para baños<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Con música de un servidor.<br /><br /><div class='youtube-video'><object height='344' width='425'><param value='http://www.youtube.com/v/4p-QkerEWb4&hl=en&fs=1' name='movie'> </param><param value='true' name='allowFullScreen'> </param><param value='always' name='allowscriptaccess'> </param><embed height='344' width='425' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/4p-QkerEWb4&hl=en&fs=1'> </embed></object></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-9000543110290798911?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-60370219601869739462008-12-05T19:07:00.001-06:002008-12-05T19:07:27.203-06:00WTF<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div class='youtube-video'><object height='344' width='425'><param value='http://www.youtube.com/v/ZDHSbrPZH4A&hl=en&fs=1' name='movie'> </param><param value='true' name='allowFullScreen'> </param><param value='always' name='allowscriptaccess'> </param><embed height='344' width='425' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/ZDHSbrPZH4A&hl=en&fs=1'> </embed></object></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-6037021960186973946?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672636068726595280.post-77829465549522242452008-12-01T21:36:00.001-06:002008-12-01T21:36:23.934-06:00Jar G. - 1D EP<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b>Jar G. - 1D EP</b><br />Lunes, 01 de Diciembre de 2008<br /><br />Para Jacqueline<br /><br />i. OH HAI<br />ii. Mind Map<br />iii. KTHXBYE<br /><br />Jorge Antonio Rangel Guerrero (Jar G.) : todo<br />Fher de Maná : nada<br /><br />Saludos a los GLM, las Fuchis, al supergroup de covers Vexations, a the mormons y al Taller de la Caballeriza.<br /><br />"OH HAI" contiene samples del álbum Party Fun With Recordes Volume One ("For Aidan" de Grandpa Norm y "Rock 'n' Roll Boy" de Justin), publicado por Comfort Stand Recordings bajo dominio público (¡Gracias!).<br />http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/004/index.html<br /><br />Dots.<br /><br />..<br />..<br /><br /><a href='http://musica.jrangel.net/'>http://musica.jrangel.net/</a><br /><br />..<br />..<br /><br />Publicado en Internet y para todo el mundo bajo la siguiente licencia Creative Commons:<br /><br />Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0<br />http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/<br /><br />Eres libre de:<br />* Copiar, distribuir y comunicar públicamente la obra<br />* Hacer obras derivadas<br /><br />Bajo las condiciones siguientes:<br />* Atribución. Debes reconocer la autoría de la obra en los términos especificados por el propio autor o licenciante.<br />* No comercial. No puedes utilizar esta obra para fines comerciales.<br />* Licenciamiento Recíproco. Si alteras, transformas o creas una obra a partir de esta obra, solo podrás distribuir la obra resultante bajo una licencia igual a ésta.<br /><br /><a href='http://www.archive.org/download/1D_EP/Jar_G.__1D_EP.zip'><big><b>Descargar</b></big></a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1672636068726595280-7782946554952224245?l=blog.jrangel.net'/></div>Jorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989494076971087195noreply@blogger.com0