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My random browsing around the Fuzz site early Sunday morning with one of my easy listenin' playlists on, culminated in reading silverback’s blog on America’s crumbling infrastructure and greenbubba’s point therein about culture and information changing exponentially, without waiting on politicians.
This prompted me to do some research on several notable persons and NGOs [non-governmental organizations] mentioned therein, namely, Paul Barker [of USSA together with silverback/Duane Denison – see Fuzz team], Massivechange, and paulhawkin. In the process, I came across the ambitious undertaking of Bruce Mau Design and the Institute without Boundaries to change the world for the better [with "design" being used in an expansive rather than technically restrictive sense]; and I have truncated this for relevance to my blog topic today and concluding point, as follows:
"What is Massive Change? Design has emerged as one of the world's most powerful forces. It has placed us at the beginning of a new, unprecedented period of human possibility, where all economies and ecologies are becoming global, relational, and interconnected.
In order to understand and harness these emerging forces, there is an urgent need to articulate precisely what we are doing to ourselves and to our world. This is the ambition of Massive Change. Massive Change is a celebration of our global capacities but also a cautious look at our limitations.
...
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes. Engineered as an international discursive project, Massive Change: The Future of Global Design, will map the new capacity, power and promise of design.
Massive Change explores paradigm-shifting events, ideas, and people...We need to evolve a global society that has the capacity to direct and control the emerging forces in order to achieve the most positive outcome. We must ask ourselves: Now that we can do anything what will we do?"
I think Mau's notion of the power of "design" and the evolving concept of the power of "music" [in an expansive rather than technically restrictive sense] are totally at one with each other. I thus conclude with the following points:
1. It is self-evident that there are no borders around music without boundaries.
2. Digital music is cascading globally without limitation.
3. Governments are powerless in establishing a conflict-free world because politicians are the captives of their own creation.
4. Everyone is tired of the endless re-cycling of the same old BS.
5. Artists exist to strip away all the BS in our lives.
6. That’s why we need them and Music without Borders.
This prompted me to do some research on several notable persons and NGOs [non-governmental organizations] mentioned therein, namely, Paul Barker [of USSA together with silverback/Duane Denison – see Fuzz team], Massivechange, and paulhawkin. In the process, I came across the ambitious undertaking of Bruce Mau Design and the Institute without Boundaries to change the world for the better [with "design" being used in an expansive rather than technically restrictive sense]; and I have truncated this for relevance to my blog topic today and concluding point, as follows:
"What is Massive Change? Design has emerged as one of the world's most powerful forces. It has placed us at the beginning of a new, unprecedented period of human possibility, where all economies and ecologies are becoming global, relational, and interconnected.
In order to understand and harness these emerging forces, there is an urgent need to articulate precisely what we are doing to ourselves and to our world. This is the ambition of Massive Change. Massive Change is a celebration of our global capacities but also a cautious look at our limitations.
...
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes. Engineered as an international discursive project, Massive Change: The Future of Global Design, will map the new capacity, power and promise of design.
Massive Change explores paradigm-shifting events, ideas, and people...We need to evolve a global society that has the capacity to direct and control the emerging forces in order to achieve the most positive outcome. We must ask ourselves: Now that we can do anything what will we do?"
I think Mau's notion of the power of "design" and the evolving concept of the power of "music" [in an expansive rather than technically restrictive sense] are totally at one with each other. I thus conclude with the following points:
1. It is self-evident that there are no borders around music without boundaries.
2. Digital music is cascading globally without limitation.
3. Governments are powerless in establishing a conflict-free world because politicians are the captives of their own creation.
4. Everyone is tired of the endless re-cycling of the same old BS.
5. Artists exist to strip away all the BS in our lives.
6. That’s why we need them and Music without Borders.
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http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/
I was part of the monterey/woodstock generation but not engaged enough. Thus, I too need a "second chance" to participate in the music revolution. This go around, I will not miss it.
You raise a great image of music as the near perfect language of our collective consciiousness and, for those who missed the heady days of the 60's, our chance to participate in the second music revolution which will be a web-based one. We should expand upon this image so more folks who need to, can see it.
The URL may be taken, but the idea is a compelling and universal one that no-one can own and we all can share.
Music without borders; music without boundaries; music without fear. Whatever, let's just make it happen.