Forwarded by Negativland.
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>>Part III - Internet Protocol vs. Ownership Protocol
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>>What is music, really? Stripped of all artifice, in the vacuum of
>>space, music is a strictly ordered but fluid vibration, that commands a
>>spherical space in time and becomes the source of an infinite resonation
>>and progressively expanding coincidences. In a very important way, music
>>is our destiny. Music is the infinite source of echoes that cannot be
>>contained.
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>>Empirically, we say that the shape of a sound refers to its envelope and
>>that all sounds have a beginning (attack), a middle (sustain) and an
>>ending (decay). This defines only sound waves that impact our ears,
>>whereas in the great scheme of things, the envelope is infinite and the
>>beginning of any sound is just the ending of another sound that got
>>found again. This is because in the universe, there is no end to the
>>echo. In fact, what we refer to as the "great scheme of things" is,
>>itself, a very long, sustained vibration.
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>>In 2001, I can't understand there being any doubt that the actual
>>language of the universe and, more than that, the very fabric upon which
>>the universe is constructed, is a vast musical composition. Consider
>>that thousand year-old Pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula in the
>>constellation Taurus. We continue to "hear" it, pounding out its
>>unfathomably precise rhythm and beat, the same way we hear our car
>>radios, actually...
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>>One day we ll discover that M-1 is the Rock of Ages...
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>>We disconnect ourselves from eternal phenomena because we only feel
>>confident with the things we experience in the immediate plane of our
>>five physical senses, in the scale of our lifetimes. This is the enigma
>>of containing an infinity of thought in brains connected only to five
>>physical senses, in fact. The disconnect is that, because of this
>>limitation, we are not able to put together a very simple realization
>>and it is this: Each of our physical lives is a vibration that
>>"attacks", is "sustained", and ultimately "decays", however in the
>>reality that connects us with the universe and our origins in it, if we
>>apply what we instinctively KNOW, each of our lives is a constant
>>sustenance of an infinite vibration. The essence of this realization is
>>that we never die, we are only constantly reborn.
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>>The trick has always been in recognizing that there *is* an ordered
>>dimension invisible to human eyes and ears... a place only
>>comprehensible by a sixth sense. Artists get this and musicians, good
>>musicians especially, feel it and then, they communicate it. Before
>>there was light, there was sound. The excitation of matter that gives
>>off light, has at its core a palpable vibration. We are, at our core,
>>the sound we hear.
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>>The digits get this. We do not... Yet.
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>>As the evolution of communication would naturally lead us, we have come
>>to a place where the communication, the expression of light and sound,
>>has been reduced to digits. The digital plane contains, now, our thought
>>and it leads us in two directions: towards our destiny and towards our
>>origins, simultaneously.
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>>It s as if to say & Before we were, was where we are going .
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>>At first, there was only email.
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>>Intellectual property, which is just simple thought really, took on a
>>digital form and suddenly shot across a wire grid without impediments,
>>only screen terminals with translator boxes at the ends of the wire. We
>>were fascinated. The exchange was incredibly simple.
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>> 1. Intellect 1 composes Intellectual Property and sends it, over
>>Internet Protocol, to Intellect 2. 2. Intellectual Property
>>reaches a translator box and terminal screen, where it is read by
>>Intellect 2. 3. Intellect 2 ignores, adds more to, subtracts from,
>>or lets stand, the original Intellectual Property. 4. Intellect
>>2 sends resulting or modified Intellectual Property to Intellect 3, over
>>Internet Protocol5.
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>>and so on.
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>>Then there was music, reduced to digits. Music filling the
>>instantaneously connected network. It unleashed the conflagration we
>>find ourselves in today... the reason there is Pho, it seems... because
>>it exposed us to a double reality that we never considered before.
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>> 1. That we could share the gift of music across vast spaces in time
>>and make it part of our global community without the physical
>>constraints previously introduced by business systems of the past
>>fifty years. 2. That, as part of that realization, it disrupted a
>>control that has built value by limiting our access to the magical
>>vibration and is now scrambling to re-introduce those controls.3.
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>>Star power, created by lawyers who structure business, is something owned
>>by that business, privately. You have to pay for access. Problem is,
>>when Intellectual Property originating from star power hits Internet
>>Protocol, the Internet thing shoots holes right through the Ownership
>>thing.
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>>What happens when you put a musician in a room of people, and the gift
>>resonates? Surprise! The weight of the law just falls away... some of the
>>best music happens when the "agreement" between musician and audience is
>>absolutely understood without the need for a paper contract.
>>Spontaneously, the gift, the giving, the receiving, the response...
>>create a two way conversation, everybody gets it.
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>>In that setting, lawyers dance.
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>>This is because music, like that Crab Nebula Pulsar M-1, is a sphere on
>>fire. Fire is a form of atmosphere, that can be visualized as
>>disappearing at its edges, into the atmosphere surrounding it, which
>>absorbs it and is transformed by that absorption. Musicians give off a
>>scorching vibration that is absorbed into us and it feels good, because
>>our nature is about that & from the primeval mystic.
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>>In the recent historical precedent where music becomes a business, music
>>is like diamonds, contained in jewel boxes, protected by the weight of
>>the law and the finest guns that money can buy. Of course, the guns are
>>figurative. In reality, what we show each other as proof of ownership is
>>paper. The owners manufacture CDs, package them, and sell a controlled
>>product. The flame is allowed to dissipate at the edges, but money must
>>first change hands.
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>>This is primitive. If we don't admit that, we are blind to the great
>>possibilities just beyond our reach.
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>>The digital future restores music to its primeval connection in the
>>universe. The same goes for all Intellectual Property.
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>>What Pho struggles with, daily, is that, as digital media subsumes itself
>>to the physical plane around it, business concerns seek to rein it back
>>into the guarded jewel boxes that are its recent historical precedent.
>>In 2001, multimedia is a burning sphere, dissipating at its edges,
>>becoming a part of us as we absorb it.
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>>This makes not less music but more. It makes not less value, but more
>>value. Music wants to be part of the atmosphere that naturally absorbs
>>it & you and me. This is true of books and films and television shows,
>>too. What the challenge is, is NOT about how we inject monetary controls
>>of the past into the digital future. It's about how we discover the full
>>value of the digital future in order to access the greater wealth that
>>awaits us.
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>>Ownership protocol, in that venturing forth, is secondary to the Internet
>>Protocol that defines the emerging landscape. By letting go of the
>>systems of constraint, we open ourselves to a destiny far richer than
>>$14 per disk. Otherwise, $14 is all we will ever see.
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>>How do we arrive at the greater future? In a way, it's a matter of faith
>>and trust, qualities that lawyers can only assure by means of paper
>>contracts but that we, as humans, have an endless capacity to exercise.
>>Only by maintaining a focus on the deeper dimension of the music are we
>>able to really see; whereas in the discussion we are focused, between
>>business modes of thinking, we make music into something less and we
>>allow ourselves to be divided in the process.
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>>As light is the visible manifestation of a vibrating core, then like
>>stars in the cosmos, musicians give off light and heat when they
>>vibrate. More evidence that this is true can be discerned than evidence
>>to the contrary. In many cases, it s occurrence is related to the
>>audience s empathetic agreement & it s willingness to accept the
>>vibration and see the light. If audience agrees to feel it,
>>instantaneously it knows that it is in the presence of an inner
>>vibration, be it large or small. If there is agreement between the
>>musician and the audience, the resulting dialog invariably exceeds the
>>scale of the physical plane, potentially transcending to the ethereal
>>plane. We see this happen time and time again.
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>>We say it is magic because it is magic.
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>>The actual effect of musical vibration when it connects with an
>>audience can be of sufficient scale to change weather patterns. And in a
>>much, much larger sense, more often it is in the form of sub-microscopic
>>synapses in the minds of countless people. Compared with changing
>>weather patterns, this may seem the less, but is actually the most,
>>powerful expression.
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>>In human terms, that's how music changes history.
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>>Throughout history, perhaps there was a time when music's manifestation
>>was not so spectacular as it is today. Gypsies moved from town to town,
>>bards traveled the dusty byways. In another way of thinking, it's likely
>>that music has always been the most powerful force on earth because of
>>its ubiquity, because of its core connection with our basic nature and
>>with great masses of people.
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>>Perhaps the time of spectacle is subsiding in the digital future that we
>>live in today. The difference between the digital future and the time of
>>the Renaissance lute player is that in the digital future we
>>RECOGNIZE the power we are experiencing and we are able to recognize it
>>consciously, as a whole community. Is it any mystery why, given the
>>promise of digital distribution, we want it all the time and where ever
>>we are?
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>>Of course, we have the music industry to thank for beginning the process
>>of discovery that we engage in today. In the recent historical
>>precedent, the music industry created the energy that today is seen and
>>felt everywhere we turn.
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>>At this juncture, however, the music business needs to follow the
>>unexpected path and it must do so as a unified force. It, alone, has the
>>power to either unite us or to divide us; to be a part of a greater
>>destiny or to be a force that keeps us from attaining the highest levels
>>to which we, in our souls, aspire; to open the door or to close it. And
>>because it is the first mass media to deal with the challenge, the
>>course it takes is all the more meaningful. We are living in a time and
>>space of far greater meaning than we allow ourselves to realize.
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>>The long and winding road leads us into a future that is already here in
>>more ways than we can yet know & it only begins by permeating our
>>digital space. Why do we fight something so strong? Can we not see the
>>sphere of fire burning before us? Would it not be better to take fire
>>from it, to use as a force of transformation in the physical plane &
>>rather than dive into it armed with paper that will, most likely, be so
>>easily burned?
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>>The future is a star more brilliant than we are able to imagine.
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>>The time of folk, protest, and antiwar? The era of superstars and rock
>>and roll extravaganza? Grunge? Rap and Hip-Hop?
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>>Our digital future is larger than all of those combined, by far; an arena
>>whose greatest act is yet to walk on stage. We are all here, waiting in
>>our seats. The stadium is global and the great mystical vibration can be
>>felt and heard. The only thing we need to do is let go of the historical
>>precedent & let the digits permeate our soul. The reward will be greater
>>than riches.
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>>Aye, music could be that gift, if only we could let it be.
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>>For this reason, the recording industry should be kicking off the barn
>>doors and letting the music flow in the digital world. We are
>>distracting ourselves >from our true destiny by fighting over the
>>ownership of a musical vibration that has returned to its origins and
>>wants to take us with it. We ARE the universe, but we don't believe it.
>>Instead, we do battle over paper that cannot sustain digits. We make
>>house calls on Senators to tell us how to walk backwards. By doing so,
>>we rob ourselves of a far greater future.
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>>I ask you: What if they gave a war and nobody came?
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>> ROQ
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