As part of the UK based non-profit, the Mindful Living Community, Lucy Chan teaches mindfulness, self-compassion & Buddhism internationally. She leads retreats for the mindfulness charity The Sharpham Trust & co-created their Self-Compassion programme. Her interests lie in learning how to befriend & embrace our inner landscapes whilst relating to the outside world & others in a kind & compassionate way. As a practising medical doctor, she understands the importance of integrating mindfulness and self-compassion practices as a way to keep balance in everyday life.

Pleases visit https://www.mindfullivingcommunity.co.uk/ for more information.

Dr. Lucy Chan (English)

Affectionate breathing

Giving & receiving compassion

Lovingkindness for ourselves

Compassion With Equanimity

Self Compassion Break

Early morning. I went to see if it would be possible to record moor frogs in a place where I know they are. I didn't see any frogs, but I did meet a capercaillie. I tied the microphones to a tree and left to record. The picture shows the same bird that appears in the recording.

Equipment:
Zoom F3 digital recorder
An Azden microphone pre-amplifier/mixer
Primo Microphones with EM172 capsules. Recorded 32 bit 48kHz

Western capercaillie makes vocalizations in early spring forest

Disquiet Junto Project 0611: Music That Listens to Itself
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds.

My notes can be found here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/64092/9

Step 1: The underlying idea is to produce music that, so to speak, listens to itself. This would be music that employs techniques to revisit itself — repurposes itself — as it proceeds. From reverb to echo to tape loops to granular synthesis to accessing a buffer, various techniques serve such a compositional and performance purpose. Consider a means to achieve this result.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that employs the technique you focused on as a result of Step 1. Please note: for the Berkeley Alembic event, I’ll be sharing music that is particularly quiet, particularly appropriate to a meditative state of mind. You don’t need to record quiet music for this project, but quiet music is what I’ll be playing at the event.

[Disquiet_Junto_0611] Imaginary Windchime

Here is the ReelWorld One AC Core update as heard on the stream of 94.1 KXOJ/Glenpool-Tulsa, OK.  Enjoy!

ReelWorld One AC Core Update - October 2023

REELWORLD- RADIO SCOOP jingles 2023 suite

Efter 13 år inom Public Service valde Joakim Lamotte att pröva lyckan som frilansreporter. På kort tid blev han en av landets mest uppmärksammade journalister. I boken "Där stormen är - En swishhoras betraktelser" sammanfattar han sin journalistiska gärning.

Avsnitt 57 – Joakim Lamotte

Sesión 3. Zombis del capital. Por una economía política de clase con Raúl Zelik.
Curso: Ecología y lucha de clases
lunes 26 de febrero de 2024

Los muertos vivientes parecen estar tomando el control de nuestra sociedad. "Ciudades sin alma", un modelo económico que destruye la buena vida más de lo que la permite, el regreso de monstruos fascistas. En la que es considerada su obra magna, Raul Zelik se pregunta cómo se relacionan estos acontecimientos y cómo pueden detenerse. En esta búsqueda, recurre a otro muerto viviente que no desaparece: la idea socialista. Sin un fortalecimiento de la propiedad común, sostiene el autor, no se podrá evitar ni el colapso ecológico ni la inminente caída en el autoritarismo. La crisis multifacética requiere de un gran contra plan emancipador. Desde esa premisa, Zelik esboza cómo puede reinventarse la izquierda, en qué debe consistir un proyecto socialista y de dónde debe proceder el poder social para llevar a cabo dicha transformación.

Ecologia y lucha de clases

Zombis del capital

Más información

Zombis del Capital con Raúl Zelik

TM - WIAD Composite 2019

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

PORT OF TEMA

The non-profit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion is devoted solely to disseminating self-compassion. Self-compassion can be defined as learning to treat yourself the way you would treat a good friend when they suffer, fall short or fail in some way. Founded in 2012 by Kristin Neff, PhD and Christopher K. Germer, PhD, the center is a place where people can learn about self-compassion, find out where to train in MSC, continue to practice MSC skills, and explore how to teach MSC to others. We invite you to explore the site and find out how self-compassion may help you or those you care about.

Affectionate breathing

Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

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