Posted on 2025-01-12
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Noumenology
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-01-12
https://sbblues.com/2025/01/13/dj-hairy-larry-presents-hairy-larry-playing-noumenology/
Thanks Marty, today I'm going to improvise jazz piano on a song inspired by Immanuel Kant.
Now Immanuel Kant was an influential philosopher back in the 18th century and he remains influential today. Kant created a dichotomy between phenomenon and noumena where phenomenon applies to things we can perceive with the senses and noumena are things that cannot be perceived. So I wrote this song called "Noumenolgy" about the study of things that cannot be perceived.
At first I thought this would be an ideal academic tenure, I mean, who could prove you wrong? But further thought led me to many scientists who deal with noumena on a daily basis.
Take cosmology for instance, the study of the origins of the universe. Cosmologists have come up with the idea of the big bang, something that happened about 14 billion years ago. They check how fast the universe is expanding to come up with a number like that. And they keep building bigger and bigger telescopes because the farther away something is the longer it took for it's light to get to us which means we're really looking back into the past when we look at distant galaxies.
Well, the big bang is noumenal. I mean, nobody's going to actually perceive it. So you could say that some cosmologists are, in fact, noumenologists.
Or take particle physics. String theory, where we look at the stuff that makes protons and electrons, started as a mathematical exercise without proof in the real world. Definitely noumenologically inclined.
But those particle physicists kept building bigger and bigger cyclotrons banging atoms together to see what escaped and they started detecting the mathematically predicted sub-particles. I read last week that they discovered a particle that has mass going in one direction and no mass going in the other. Now, how does that work?
Moving on from philosophy, cosmology, and physics to noumena that actually affect ordinary people. Songwriters have written more songs about it than any other subject. Stories about it finance the publishing industry allowing them to publish books on philosophy and cosmology. And Jesus preached about it as his core message. Of course, I'm talking about love, something everyone experiences that has no phenomenal existence.
You can't see it. You can't touch it. What is love? remains a valid philosophical question. So there we are. Back to Kant.
On the song "Noumenology" I scat sing with a bebop and a doowop replacing actual words. So I got to thinking this morning, maybe I should write a lyric? Maybe about a cosmologist and a physicist who fall in love. Or even better a cosmologist and a physicist who bond over their shared their love for noumenology.
Which brings us to the big question. Just what is up with Hairy Larry's brain and how does he come up with this stuff? I'm going to reveal my secret. Sometimes it's dreams. And sometimes, in the morning, when I'm not ready to get out of bed, you know what I mean, you've been there, my mind just goes tick tick tick and the next thing you know I've written another podcast.
So now, from my "Hairy Larry Livestreams" album, here I am scat singing to "Noumenology".
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Noumenology
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-08-11
https://sbblues.com/2025/01/13/dj-hairy-larry-presents-hairy-larry-playing-noumenology/
Hairy Larry Livestream
Something Blue Archives
https://archive.org/details/hairylarrylivestreams
Something Blue Archives - List Of Concerts
https://archive.org/details/somethingbluearchives?sort=-publicdate
music
And that's Hairy Larry singing "Noumenology". Don't miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00, for more piano improvisatation from my "Hairy Larry Livestreams" album. Plus Sun Ra, David Dellacroce, Lee Ritenour, and Dave Grusin.
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DJ Hairy Larry With David Dellacroce Playing D
Something Blue - Rhythms - 29 second spot
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring David Dellacroce, Sun Ra, Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, and Hairy Larry. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at https://sbblues.com.
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Now Playing On Something Blue - Ancestral
https://sbblues.com/2025/01/11/ancestral/
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Posted on 2025-01-11
Something Blue – Ancestral – January 11, 2024
https://sbblues.com/2025/01/11/ancestral/
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Karl Denson, David Murray, and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at https://sbblues.com.
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at https://kasu.org.
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Posted on 2025-01-10
MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2025-01-10
https://archive.org/details/ccj2025-01-03
https://archive.org/details/ccj2025-01-10
https://jazz.mixremix.cc
34:26
Regis V Gronoff-Lonesome Traveler
https://www.jamendo.com/album/87798/lonesome-traveler
CC BY-NC-SA
26:48
Piano Jazz by Andre Zimmermann
https://archive.org/details/PianoJazz-AndreZimmermann
CC BY
50:19
La vie sous la mer - Bruce H. McCosar
https://www.jamendo.com/album/9479/la-vie-sous-la-mer
CC BY-SA
56:27
Dead Horse by Charts and Maps
https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/dead-horse
CC BY-NC-ND
22:54
FMT-Jazzy Cooking Show
https://www.jamendo.com/album/480982/jazzy-cooking-show
CC BY-NC-ND
14:28
Art Yenta-Mystery of Meetings
https://www.jamendo.com/album/75410/mystery-of-meetings
CC BY-NC-ND
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Posted on 2025-01-06
Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - January 2025 - Bebop Beatniks Album - The Dragon's Egg Playtest - Indie Archive
Ok, there's a new Bebop Beatniks album out featuring Paul Lessard on alto sax playing on top of our piano trio with Jeremy Jackson on bass and Alex Washam, drums.
It's called "The Blue Crane" and it's got Audubon on the cover. Want to listen? Here's some links.
Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/hl2024-09-29.album
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/4eYhV5ZXSu7i0Wb4fqlkKD
Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-blue-crane-single/1787936815
Amazon
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0DRZ1HRH5
Youtube
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nxSx2w_CR8YPd8JH8Zsd7CBVCl3Is9bDg
Deezer
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/691212751
The Internet Archive link has the whole set which is also available as a video here.
https://archive.org/details/hl2024-09-29
I also have a new Something Blue show and a From The Archives Of Something Blue podcast featuring Jerry Bone and some other fine guitarists. Also another podcast with beat poetry and a Bebop Beatniks show from 2016 featuring Carl Heyl and Rev. Rick reading. Here's some links.
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jerry Bone Playing Something
https://sbblues.com/2024/12/29/dj-hairy-larry-presents-jerry-bone-playing-something/
Something Blue - Ladybug
https://sbblues.com/2025/01/04/ladybug/
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Carl Heyl Reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti
https://sbblues.com/2025/01/05/dj-hairy-larry-presents-carl-heyl-reading-lawrence-ferlinghetti/
Bebop Beatniks Live at Craighead Forest Bandshell on 2016-06-18
https://archive.org/details/hl2016-06-18
At Library Game Day the RPG table was kind enough to let me playtest The Dragon's Egg. The modified combat went well. It's great to just look for ones and not have to add stuff up. (The Dragon's Egg uses D6 dice pools in combat and if you roll a 1 on any die you miss.)
I ran a one hour one shot, which was a little bit short, but we wanted to playtest Alan Wortman's new Chronicles Of Ember module too. I didn't get to run any puzzles which happens if the players lose to the dragon mid game. So, my conclusion was that a two hour one shot would be better.
Player feedback was good. They saw it as a light system they could pull out if they had some company over that wanted to play a short RPG one shot.
My programming time has been devoted to The Indie Archive, an archival system for Indie Producers. It's a hardware and software project with three systems to set up so most of the work has been writing installation documents.
I have it working. I'm testing it now. There's still a little bit of programming work to be done and quite a bit more documentation. Right now I'm testing The Indie Archive with different Operating Systems and documenting recovery procedures in case one of the three systems goes belly up.
Who is it for? If you're a producer of digital art like videos, albums, photos, etc and you really don't ever want to lose your finished pieces you store them on The Indie Archive which stores them on seven hard drives across four systems in three locations with minimal monthly expense.
I'm making it for me because I need it but it will be released as open source software and will be available on codeberg.
So there you go. Music, gaming, free culture. The primary areas of interest at Gamer+DBN running on Mastodon. If you aren't on Mastodon yet you are invited to join Gamer+DBN, The Delta Boogie Network and Gamer+, at this link.
https://gamerplus.org
Please forward this email to your music/gaming friends and share this link.
https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Newsletter-Gamerplus_News_-_January_2025.txt
Let me know what projects you've been working on so I can help spread the word.
Thanks,
@hairylarry@gamerplus.org - on Mastodon
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Posted on 2025-01-05
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Carl Heyl Reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-01-05
https://sbblues.com/2025/01/05/dj-hairy-larry-presents-carl-heyl-reading-lawrence-ferlinghetti/
Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti read at the Craighead Forest Bandshell.
Bebop Beatniks was designed with spoken word in mind. It's right there in the band name, Bebop says jazz and Beatniks says beat poetry.
At the Craighead Forest Bandshell on June 18, 2016, Bebop Beatniks opened their set with a song I wrote called "Church" and I invited my son, Carl Heyl, to read a poem called "9" from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Coney Island Of The Mind".
As always, Carl was entertaining, and he delivered the poem by portraying the scene, making it come alive for the audience.
Playing in Bebop Beatniks that day were, Kevin Tinker - trumpet, Sid Davis - trumpet, Paul Nunis - bass, and I'm on piano. All of us are from Northeast Arkansas.
There's a video of the performance where you can see Carl in action. It's really great and I'll include a link at sbblues.com.
This Saturday on Something Blue we're featuring a poet, Saul Williams, reading with three different bands.
So now, here's Carl Heyl reading the Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem, "9" in front of Bebop Beatniks playing my song, "Church".
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Carl Heyl Reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-08-11
https://sbblues.com/2025/01/05/dj-hairy-larry-presents-carl-heyl-reading-lawrence-ferlinghetti/
Bebop Beatniks Live at Craighead Forest Bandshell on 2016-06-18
Something Blue Archives
https://archive.org/details/hl2016-06-18
Something Blue Archives - List Of Concerts
https://archive.org/details/somethingbluearchives?sort=-publicdate
Carl Heyl Reads Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Bebop Blues Blast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZewb2hee8
Bebop Beatniks - The Blue Crane
Recorded at Blues Fest September 29, 2024
https://archive.org/details/hl2024-09-29.album
music
And that's Bebop Beatniks recorded at the Craighead Forest Bandshell on June 18, 2016, with spoken word by my son, Carl Heyl. Don't miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 to hear Karl Denson, David Murray, and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah with spoken word by Saul Williams.
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DJ Hairy Larry With David Murray Playing Music Of The Mind
Something Blue - Ancestral 29 second spot
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Karl Denson, David Murray, and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at https://sbblues.com.
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at http://kasu.org.
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Now Playing On Something Blue - Ladybug
https://sbblues.com/2025/01/04/ladybug/
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