[Ilaubuas]

tsandi,
we resonate, as we are opposites in some ways. i too am very interested in music but the interest is ‘visual’ (more from a ‘mapmaker’ perspective). i work in an area of geometry that is new and advancing. the head of the department of astronomy at boston university was asked to look at the designs in crops circles paying no attention as to where they came from. he saw (and proved) that they were rife with the diatonic rations (the ratios of music). i saw the relationship to a geometry i had been working that only works in 3-d and has no lines or points. (writing a book on this).
tsandi, i am tone deaf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so i must use other methods to see into these things.
it is so important for us that you stay connected with this group as we have so much to learn from you.

rap is giant here. they have almost deleted it from radio. so what happens? the white kids pass around cds of rap and ignore radio. the new rap is designed so there are almost all black performers (rare exceptions are such as emenem.) so it is not like the whites copying ‘blues’ or ‘jazz’ or ‘rock & role’ etc. remains black performers and entranced white listeners. only in the future will we understand how powerful this is!!!!!

as i stated there are very few blacks in maine. yet it seems that every single community has a ‘black drumming’ group, lol.

if you have a chance do look at what senegal is doing with education. first all of africa will follow and then the rest of the world.

don’t get the wrong idea that americans know anything about africa. they don’t. i am one of the very few who see the importance. the only guy i seem to be able to talk to about this, (white guy), has deep military connections and understands. i try to explain exactly why africa is turning point in history to my friends and i am mostly misunderstood.

(moderator may delete this paragraph but i hope it broadly philosophical enough. but have no problem if deleted.) bbc today: [please email for url] i found it fearful and reactionary, we are still avoiding a equitable relationship. i am one of the few here that would see it this way! but it is good in that it is a step toward one. and that it must come about. only a question of how.

i do quick scans of news, many links. anything out of equatorial capitals such as quito in sa or kampala in africa i read. i will also read any article related to islands off of africa no matter how seemingly irrelevant as they form sort of holograms, seychelles or sao tome etc.

will be very busy over next few weeks so might not be able to check in with divine cosmos too often or at all. but know i am thinking of you.
michael