Episode 5 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is an interview with Amber Sawyer of Rivers and Roads ALC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (US). Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/holding-unfolding-episode-5-with-amber-sawyer-transcript/
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Cover illustration by www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/
Music by www.bandlab.com/notdummroll
Learn more about Rivers and Roads at http://riversandroadsok.com/ and on their Instagram at @riversandroadsok
They also had a cool reflective contribution to the ALC Network annual report for 2020, at https://app.gitbook.com/@nycagile/s/network2020report/~/drafts/-MOqnXiXD0umpq80-N3N/facilitators-say...#rivers-and-roads-oklahoma-city-oklahoma-usa
Follow up on the shout out of Akilah's work at https://raisingfreepeople.com/podcast/
We allude to how self-directed education is often cast as a new invention by some US white men lone geniuses; check out this piece about whose traditions we're actually building on with this practice: https://www.self-directed.org/tp/ours-first/
One resource for learning more about whose lands each ALC we're calling into these interviews from is on is https://native-land.ca/
Finally, those new to comparing education philosophies who want to learn more about those mentioned in this episode can look up John Dewey and the laboratory school as a start on the progressive education movement, Maria Montessori on Montessori schools, "The Hundred Languages of Children" on Reggio Emilia, Summerhill as an entry point for Democratic Free Schools, and the Alliance for Self-Directed Education for content on self-directed education...although there are many other starting points to explore each philosophy from.

Holding Unfolding - episode 5 with Amber Sawyer

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Matter of Time

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A deft blend of African and Caribbean vibes that’s sure to get waistlines moving from Lagos to Kingston, the track combines Joeboy’s patois-inflected lyrics and soulful production from P.Priime  for an all-out bashment party banger.  

The Nigerian singer has played with island influences before, spicing his 2021 smash hit “Sip (Alcohol)” with Jamaican patois, but “Likkle Riddim” takes a more explicit trip to the dancehall, with Joeboy narrating an intimate dancefloor encounter like a true gyalist.

Likkle Riddim

We are joined by Nick Sever – author of the new book Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation – to discuss his excellent ethnographic research on the creation of algorithmic recommendation systems. Nick spent a long time getting to really know the people who make these systems and his book offers so much original, granular detail about the various practices, theories, and relationships that influence the engineers behind these algorithms. Nick’s book also contains extremely interesting and surprising applications of classic anthropological theory to contemporary algorithmic technology. 

••• Nick’s book – Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo183892298.html
••• Nick’s twitter – https://twitter.com/npseaver 

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Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

240. Anthropology of Algorithms, Ethnography of Engineers, Theory of Traps (ft. Nick Seaver)

Various jams, assorted flavors.

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misc. with DJ Tara and DJ Auntie Spice @ The Lot Radio 03-26-2023

An artefact of spontaneous magic at jesscamp3. 

Sound at the Speed of Sunset aka richdecibels joined forces with Armed With Bow aka boondlllx for a late night set playing the cuddle room.

richdecibels has written about his project and what it means to slow down in attunement here 
https://open.substack.com/pub/richdecibels/p/sound-at-the-speed-of-sunset

01 - 00:00:00 - attunement
02 - 00:12:56 - breath
03 - 00:44:17 - soften
04 - 01:00:49 - swell
05 - 01:17: 40 - expand
06 - 01:24:54 - a/rise

Tones From The Cuddle Chamber

Listen to version 3.0 of the Agile Learning Centers Network Starter Kit, from 2021!
Original text in English and Spanish at agilelearningcenters.gitbook.io/agile-lea…-kit-v3-0

Starter Kit: Back to the Beginning, Why Start an ALC?

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