A little bit of Chopin’s Etude some weeks ago from my laboratory of sound where I fight with all the demons of laziness in order to practice and achieve one Etude at the time
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The steps of organized sound from which the whole musical architecture can be built and live long after the composers are no more, it lives through us. Edgar Allan Poe is so correct in his The Domain of Arnheim, when titling 4 conditions of happiness the final one is related the the pursuit of purpose and in which the intensity of happiness is proportionate to the amount of spirituality in this purpose. This is why art be it musical or visual or written uplifts like nothing else and with AI further replacing the mundane work of this planet fortunately more people will be able to access these realms through necessity
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I am selecting a short story for our next book club meeting, in Montenegro but also online, welcome to join if this sounds interesting, here is a little excerpt on conditions of Happiness from Edgar Allan Poe that we will most likely read He admitted but four elementary principles, or, more strictly, conditions, of bliss. That which he considered chief was (strange to say!) the simple and purely physical one of free exercise in the open air. “The health,” he said, “attainable by other means is scarcely worth the [column 2:] name.” He instanced the ecstacies [[ecstasies]] of the fox-hunter, and pointed to the tillers of the earth, the only people who, as a class, can be fairly considered happier than others. His second condition was the love of woman. His third, and most difficult of realization, was the contempt of ambition. His fourth was an object of unceasing pursuit; and he held that, other things being equal, the extent of attainable happiness was in proportion to the spirituality of this objec
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