There's a few on the Quoteland website,...mine in particular.They should be posted there,...but lets see what happens,...I'm curious.If no photos appear,...then we'll go from that point.Deal?
I sidestep the either/or choices of logic, and choose both.-Ken Feit
Posts: 4940 | Location: my enchanted forest | Registered: 09-14-02
Had no idea that page existed, it isn't very well advertised.
At least I now know what a few more of the people here look like.
"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half." - Plato
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May all the maidens out there continue to wait with hearts of hope and may all the knights out there remember the love once found in the sunset. C 2002 VoiceOfTheStars Don't Click Here.
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We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world - its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. -Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not A Christian
Oh boy! Oh boy! An opportunity to exhibit my vanity and shocking good looks!
This is a picture of me with Ramona Saunders, who was like a third parent to me.
This is a picture of me, my cousin Michael, and my true love: the tabla!
The suit of armor I'm wearing in this picture is something I made when I was seventeen. It made sense at the time. Now it seems as silly as this picture.
:: smirk :: My lord, David- you'll never be able to sound serious again! People will always picture you as that administrator with the skirt! lol! Great way to end my day.... Administrators in shiny shirts and dressies....
-A friend
*Precise Imagination*
All hail the Mango Crayon!
We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world - its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. -Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not A Christian
*uncontrolable chuckle* We're not laughing AT you David, we are laughing WITH you.
Seeings how I am in the field of Orthodontics, may I compliment you on your perfectly straight, white, shiney teeth!! You must wear your retainer like a good boy!
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance - e e cummings
Posts: 1951 | Location: On a tree branch.....way up high. | Registered: 11-12-02
Are you by any chance practicing Kathak or some such thing in the last photo?
...just curious.
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
P.S.: I also thought that you could look like the Sheriff of Nottingham, minus the spectacles, and the thought got reinforced, when i saw the third pic. The only wrong thing being that you look like a happy sheriff.
Not kathak. Fusion jazz, Thanksgiving 2002. Michael was playing "Take five" by Dave Brubeck, and I was improvizing in jhuptal (10-beat).
Judging by the position of my hands, I was about to play a +very+ loud dha. I recall that I got pretty sloppy during that jam session, because Michael was just such a better musician than I, and I was trying to match his virtuosity (without success).
"A two-headed barrel-shaped drum known as the pakhawaj may have been the original model for the tabla. Legend has it that the Sufi musician Amir Khusrau cut his pakhawaj in half to make the two-drum set known as tabla." -- The discovery of the Tabla
The udu is a totally different instrument. It requires the use of both hands, so I could not play it with a tabla.
It's a clay drum shaped like a water pot, with two apertures. Sliding percussive sounds, similar to the bayan but longer-lasting, can be achieved by striking the side aperture and lifting the hand slowly. (The sound exits through the upper aperture, and the distance between the side aperture and the hand changes the wavelength and thus the pitch.)
It was invented about 25 years ago, and it's pretty popular in the modern percussionist's repertoir. Full-scale hand-made udus can cost thousands of dollars. I have a small, mass-produced udu that cost me $57.
In the udu-against-tabla recording I posted, I play a steady 2-against-3 on the udu. Then I play it back and dub tabla improvizations over it. As you can hear, I had trouble deciding whether to improvize in duple or triple, and the improvizations eventually wander away from the udu altogether (which is why I silence the udu after awhile).
I can play tabla +way+ faster than that, but trying to improvize in time with a recording is extremely difficult, as I discovered. I now have the utmost respect for electronic musicians. That stuff is much harder than it sounds. Next time, I'll just have somebody else play the second instrument!
I play the tabla without the bayan until about 35 seconds into the udu-against-tabla recording. In the entire piece, I use the bayan sparingly. It seemed a little redundant with the udu.
So you play the sitar? How many years? What gharana? And who was your teacher???
my picture is on the do you look like anyone else thread that belesprit put on, but dear me...David those are some...special (not sure if that's the right word...?) pictures...wow, nice skirt, hehehe
"Veni Creator Spiritus, mentes tu orum visita, Veni Creator Spiritus, somnum nostrum vivifica."
"A life that's gotta be more than a one light town where the light is always red, gotta be more than an old ghost town where the ghost ain't even dead."
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance - e e cummings
lol! Great way to end my day.... Administrators in shiny shirts and dressies.... 
I really am. 
