Dreamscape

Dreamscape, Pt. 39

30 Stunning and Vivid Rain Sounds

Vividly Rain, Pt. 7

Vividly Rain, Pt. 11

This lecture was given on April 28, 2022 at the College of William and Mary.

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About the speaker:
Jennifer Frey is an associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. Prior to joining the philosophy faculty at USC, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. She has published widely on virtue and moral psychology and she has co-edited three volumes on Self-Transcendence and Virtue, Practical Wisdom, and Practical Truth. Her writing has been featured in Breaking Ground, Evangelization and Culture, First Things, Fare Forward, Image, Law and Liberty, The Point, and USA Today.

What Makes a Person Good? Aquinas and the Cardinal Virtues | Prof. Jennifer Frey

View Prof. Pezzini's handout here: https://tinyurl.com/342z96ec

This lecture was given on April 21, 2022 at The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst as part of "Catholicism and the Arts: An Intellectual Retreat."

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About the speaker:
Prof. Pezzini returned to Oxford in 2021, after five beautiful years in St Andrews (2016–2021). He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (2003–2008) and the University of Oxford (D.Phil. 2012). He held research fellowships at Magdalen College Oxford (2013–2015) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2016). From 2010 to 2013 he worked as Assistant Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Latin.

Tolkien on the Nature and Purpose of Christian Art | Prof. Giuseppe Pezzini

This lecture was given on April 21, 2022 at The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst as part of "Catholicism and the Arts: An Intellectual Retreat."

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About the speaker:
Dr George Corbett joined the School of Divinity in 2015. Previously, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and affiliated lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge, where he also taught English literature and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He has also studied in Pisa (as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore), Rome (Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis), and Montella (Vivarium Novum). 

Dr Corbett directs CEPHAS (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology), TheoArtistry (a project linking up theologians and artists), and is leading on a new collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music.

Music in the Catholic Tradition | Dr. George Corbett

Nature Is Our Mother

Duty to Save

Prof. Beckwith's slides can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2p982fwr

This lecture was given on April 22, 2022 at Ashland University.

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About the speaker:
Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Politics For Christians: Statecraft As Soulcraft (IVP, 2010), and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015), winner of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (MJS) as well as Fordham University (PhD, MA, philosophy).

Politics and the Problem of Moral Relativism | Prof. Francis Beckwith

This week's prompt was to create the sound of a nightmare that resolved to a soothing C6/9 chord.

I pretty much worked backwards, recording longtones on my melodica and then pitch-shifting them down to C2, E2, A2, and D3 (whether the sound of a melodica is soothing or not is up to your personal taste). Then I shmudged them up using various FX plug-ins that had wet/dry knobs.

I mapped the wet/dry mix to one macro knob in Ableton so the percentage of noise-causing would decrease at the same rate for each plugin.

It was a fun tour through my lesser-used plug-ins. Shout out to Puremagnetik, whose plug-ins showed up a lot in the various fx chains.

The image was created using DALL-E 2 with the prompt "lucid dreaming, slumber mill"

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More on this 568th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Slumber Mill (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a key chord from sleep research) — at: https://disquiet.com/0568/

Thanks to Glitcher for proposing this project.

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Declarative Dreaming (disquiet0568)

Based on 3 lines in the 86th teaching of Likutei Moharan, we are introduced to the avoda of Chanukah from a calming and inviting angle. This class was given in Woodmere, NY, December 2022

The Calming Simcha Of Chanukah - Rav Shlomo Katz

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Tolkien on the Nature and Purpose of Christian Art | Prof. Giuseppe Pezzini

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