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SUMMARY:Dualities
DESCRIPTION:Dualities: The Marriage of Opposites\n\n\n\nwith Jena Axelrod\, Mauro Bergonzi\, Anjali D’souza\, Andrew Fellows\, Gary Goldberg\, Basil Hiley\, Ruth Kastner\, Shantena Sabbadini\, Mark Saban and David Schrum \n\n\n\nand 4 Sunday sessions with Mark Vernon onDualities on Spiritual Paths: Oppositions and Contraries in Plato\, Dante\, William Blake and Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nFebruary 5 – 6\, 12 – 13\, 19 – 20\, 26 – 27\, March 5 – 6 20229:00 PST | 12:00 EST | 17:00 GMT  |  18:00 CET \n\n\n\n10 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday February 5A Conversation about Duality and Non-duality in East and Westwith Anjali D’souza\, Andrew Fellows and Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\nSunday February 6The Way of Love: Plato and Participation in the Good\, Beautiful and Truewith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday February 12Duo Duels on Non-duality\, the Quantum Potential\, and the Nature of Consciousnesswith Jena Axelrod and Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSunday February 13The Way Up and the Way Down: Dante and the One Path from Hell to Paradisewith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday February 19Connecting the Actuality of Things in Space-Time to the Reality of Possibility in QuantumLand: Convergences in Quantum Physics\, Brain Science\, Philosophy and Mystical Thoughtwith Gary Goldberg and Ruth E. Kastner \n\n\n\nSunday February 20Contraries and Human Existence: William Blake and Cleansing the Doors of Perceptionswith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday February 26Beyond Dualistic Mind: Journeying Together on David Bohm’s ‘No Road’with David Schrum \n\n\n\nSunday February 27The Master and the Emissary: Dualities in the Philosophy of Iain McGilchristwith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday March 5Jung’s Two Personalities: Psychological Implicationswith Mark Saban \n\n\n\nSunday March 6Dualities and Non-Dualitywith Mauro Bergonzi and Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us online at the Pari Center to explore the fascinating and seemingly endless topic of dualities where together with experts and scholars we will examine the meaning of dualities in physics\, philosophy\, spirituality\, literature\, psychology and reality. \n\n\n\nThe opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels BohrAs quoted by his son Hans Bohr in ‘My Father\,’ published in Niels Bohr: His Life and Work. \n\n\n\nBeauty is the harmony of opposing things.Sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLife is full of dualities. Things coexist\, oppose\, contrast and parallel every day. Duality teaches us that every aspect of life is created from a balanced interaction of opposite and competing forces. Yet these forces are not just opposites; they are complementary. \n\n\n\nAccording to the Cambridge Dictionary the word dual means ‘with two parts’ and duality ‘the state of combining two things.’ In philosophy ‘mind-body dualism’ was first formulated by the 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes who stated that there exists a clear distinction between physical and mental phenomena.. \n\n\n\nIn many of the theologies and religions of the world we also find the pervasive idea that the forces of good and evil are equally balanced in the universe. Another common idea is that of the dual nature of human beings\, existing in both body and spirit. Christian dualism refers to the belief that God and creation are distinct and also a belief in the dual personality of Christ (human and divine). Traditional Chinese philosophy similarly believes that there is both an active male and passive female principle in the universe\, which is embodied in the symmetric yin-yang. \n\n\n\nIn 1933\, C.G. Jung wrote that duality is a fact of human nature and that we cannot achieve wholeness without integrating the dark or shadow side of the self. According to Jung it is the lack of awareness of our duality and inner contrasts that may lead to uncontrolled outbursts of the shadow\, as in the time of the Nazis. \n\n\n\nSeveral political theories also show evidence of a kind of dualistic thinking. In Marxism\, for example\, we find a dialectical view of the relationship between the theory and empirical practice (praxis) of society and political systems\, the thesis and anti-thesis\, a continual tension between capitalism and socialism\, as well as between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA key notion of quantum mechanics is the complementarity of incompatible observables\, which are both needed to fully describe a quantum system\, but cannot be measured simultaneously. An example is the complementarity of position and momentum of a particle and more generally of ‘particle’ and ‘wave’ behaviour of quantum systems. \n\n\n\nDuality is explored in such fictional writings as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\, Romeo and Juliet\, The Picture of Dorian Grayand even in the contrasting characters of Harry Potter and Voldemort. Films such as Black Swan and Fight Club explore the dualism of human nature. Batman and Joker are the polar opposites of order and chaos\, light and darkness. And it is the two-sided nature of the Force that propels the storyline in Star Wars. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the visual arts\, The Kiss\, by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) depicts a nearly indistinguishable man and woman as two figures become one as they emerge from a single block of material. Dutch artist M.C. Escher was fascinated by duality and symmetry. \n\n\n\nIn Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching we read: \n\n\n\nWhen in the world all appreciate beauty as beauty\,then ugliness is already there;when all appreciate good as good\,then bad is already there. \n\n\n\n Therefore being and non-being generate each other\,difficult and easy complete each other\,long and short define each other\,high and low lean towards each other\,voice and music harmonise with each other\,before and after follow each other.
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SUMMARY:Music and Numbers
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-0cy1RkTa8\n\n\n\n\n\na webinar produced\, presented\, and performed by \n\n\n\nDr Donna Coleman \n\n\n\nand Special Guest Dr Kevin March \n\n\n\nStreaming from Studio OutBach® Santa Fe\, situated in the heart of the deep Indigenous history of Native New Mexico\, from ancient Paleoindians to Keres- and Tanoan-speaking peoples who were raided by the Comanches. \n\n\n\nMonday February 28 \n\n\n\n9:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CETTuesday March 1 at 4:00am AEST (Australia) \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\n“The theory of Relativity occurred to me by intuition\, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My parents had me study the violin from the time I was six. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”Albert Einstein \n\n\n\nquintessence n. 1. The pure\, highly concentrated essence of something. 2. The purest or most typical instance: “thou fiery-faced quintessence of all that is abominable!” (Poe). 3. Ancient & Medieval Philosophy. The fifth and highest essence (after the four elements of earth\, air\, fire\, and water)\, thought to be the substance of the heavenly bodies and latent in all things. [Middle English\, from Old French quinte essence\, from Medieval Latin quinta essentia (translation of Greek pempte ousia\, fifth essence) : Latin quinta\, feminine of quintus\, fifth (see penkwe in Appendix*) + essentia\, ESSENCE.]One of the first philosophers believed to have described the relationship between music and numbers was Pythagoras (c. 570–c. 490 BCE)\, who in fact wrote nothing himself. The first written accounts of his apparent postulates date from the third century CE. For a comprehensive discourse on the “problem of Pythagoras\,” see the article by Carl Huffman in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Suggested Reading\, below). \n\n\n\nNevertheless\, Pythagoras is credited with having distinguished\, by plucking strings of various lengths\, the relationships between the wavelengths of sound that define musical intervals and thence identified the harmonic or overtone series. The harmonic series\, which is a phenomenon of pure physics\, begins with a fundamental (the original wavelength of the plucked string)\, which subdivides proportionately\, first in half (to produce the first octave)\, in half again (the next higher octaves)\, and on and on\, to ultimately produce all of the pitches of the diatonic scale. These principles are believed to govern the development of polyphony (many layers of voices) from monophony (a single line of music\, as Gregorian Chant). The number five plays a prominent role in this evolution. \n\n\n\nThis two-hour\, fully interactive webinar will introduce the harmonic series and the musical intervals produced by it; the way a scale and its associated harmonic scheme and thence\, the musical structures that depend upon this harmony\, are derived from it; consider the significance and symbolism of the number five (quinta; cinque) and the so-called “fifth element” in the realm of music; discuss the notion of cadence and its role in Western European Art Music structures; explore the role of the Fibonacci Series [Fibonacci = contraction of Filius Bonacci\, aka Leonardo Bonacci or Leonardo Bigolio Pisano\, Italian mathematician born and died in Pisa c. 1170–1250 CE] in musical structure; and analyse and present in performance the music of several composers\, beginning\, as always\, with Johann Sebastian Bach\, discussing the interval relationships in Das Wohltemperierte Klavier  Vol. I Prelude in C major BWV 846. We will explore tonality as it relates to consonance and dissonance\, and introduce music that seeks to avoid tonality through non-repetition of tones\, by American composers Ruth Porter Crawford and Carl Sprague Ruggles by a process called Dissonation (by non-repetition of tones).A special feature of this webinar will be the participation\, from Australia at 5:00 a.m.\, of my esteemed colleague and friend\, Dr Kevin March\, with whom I have been collaborating on a project for the past two years to create a series of musical compositions inspired by the Fantod Pack by the American author\, illustrator\, and costume designer Edward Gorey (1925 Chicago – 2000 Cape Cod MA). I gave the World Premiere of two of these works for the Sadie Hawkins Day concert in Melbourne on 29th February 2020. For this webinar\, Kevin and I will discuss the role of the Fibonacci series in the choice of harmonies\, phrase lengths\, and other aspects of the structure of the piece entitled The Stones\, for which this performance is the WORLD PREMIERE. \n\n\n\nParticipants are encouraged to engage with questions\, comments\, and insights throughout the session\, which can be lodged in the Chat or via a “raised hand” in this ZOOM presentation. The second half of the webinar\, during which Dr March and Dr Coleman will engage in conversation about The Stones will be fully open for Q&A throughout. \n\n\n\nRepertory to be explored on this leg of the Quintessence of Music journey: \n\n\n\n\nJohann Sebastian Bach: Das Wolhtempierte Klavier\, I\, Prelude in C major\, BWV 846\n\n\n\nRuth Porter Crawford: Prelude No. 6 (1924)\n\n\n\nCarl Sprague Ruggles: Evocation No. 2 (1943)\n\n\n\nKevin March: Fantod Pack (2020–2022 for Donna Coleman)\, The Stones\n\n\n\n\nOn Monday February 28\, Donna will open our monthly monthly musical and philosophical journey  with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83468133210 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION IS THE FIRST OF TWO (possibly THREE) on this topic! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuggested Reading\n\n\n\nCavanagh\, Lynn. A Brief History of the Establishment of International Standard Pitch A=440 Hertz. Online. https://www.wam.hr/sadrzaj/us/Cavanagh_440Hz.pdf \n\n\n\nGann\, Kyle. An Introduction to Historical Tunings. Online. https://www.kylegann.com/histune.html \n\n\n\nHemholtz\, Hermann L.F.\, M.D. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music. London: Spottiswood and Co.\, 1885. PDF online. https://ia600208.us.archive.org/25/items/onsensationston00unkngoog/onsensationston00unkngoog.pdf \n\n\n\nHuffman\, Carl. “Pythagoras.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition)\, Edward N. Zalta\, editor. Online. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/pythagoras/. \n\n\n\nKlein\, Jürgen and Guido Giglioni\, “Francis Bacon\,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy   (Fall 2020 edition)\, Edward N. Zalta\, editor. Specific to this discussion\, see 3.3 Matter Theory and Cosmology. Online. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-bacon/#MatTheCos\n\n\n\n\nor \n\n\n\n\nhttps://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/francis-bacon\n\n\n\n\nPorterfield\, Richard. Melodic Function and Modal Processes in Gregorian Chant. PhD Dissertation. New York: City University of New York\, 2014. Online. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1091&context=gc_etds \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Coleman is a multi-award-winning concert pianist\, recording artist\, author\, performance researcher and philosopher\, and master teacher whose career spans a half-century\, of which more than half has been based in Australia. She is also an accomplished weaver and photographer and an amateur but passionate astronomer and archaeologist with a keen interest in the culture of the Indigenous peoples of Australia and the United States. As Head of Keyboard and of Postgraduate Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne\, she convened weekly thought-provoking seminars that explored relationships between music and other disciplines. Donna is writing a book entitled Dancing with the Piano\, a collection of essays distilled from these sessions and from her many years of phenomenological engagement with her ultimate dance partner\, the piano. \n\n\n\nKevin March is an award-winning composer whose works have been performed in North America\, Australia\, and Europe by Victorian Opera\, Opéra de Montréal\, Pacific Opera Victoria\, Edmonton Opera\, One Ounce Opera\, PLEXUS\, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra\, Orchestra Victoria\, Ironwood Ensemble\, Halcyon\, The Arcko Ensemble\, the ASTRA Chamber Music Society\, the New York City Opera\, and by renowned performers Donna Coleman\, Nicole Car\, Étienne Dupuis\, Gino Quilico\, Stefan Cassomenos\, Sarah Curro\, and others. \n\n\n\nHis fifth opera\, Echo & Narcissus\, commissioned by Victorian Opera\, premiered in March 2021 to positive reviews. The Sydney Morning Herald called it ” … delicate and enigmatic and often ravishingly beautiful.”  His previous opera\, Les Feluettes (The Lilies)\, commissioned by Opéra du Montréal\, premiered in May 2016 to sold-out audiences\, standing ovations\, and rave reviews\, and was nominated for a coveted Opus Award. Les Feluettes received two further productions\, Pacific Opera Victoria and Edmonton Opera\, which received two Sterling Award nominations. \n\n\n\nOther awards include First Prize in the 3MBS National Composer Awards for his orchestral work The Flowering and the Dorian La Gallienne Prize for his setting of the Rimbaud poem Ophélie. His song cycle\, Songs of Remembrance and Resistance\, was nominated for Outstanding Original Composition in the 2018 Austin Critics Table Awards. His music has been broadcast on ABC Classic FM and 3MBS radio. It has featured in the Metropolis New Music Festival and the 7th Sydney Biennale\, and in the ABC Radio National documentary Modern Muses: The Greeks and New Music. \n\n\n\nHis most recent work\, Electric Cathedral\, created in collaboration with Virtual Reality artist and poet reVerse Butcher and poet Kylie Supski\, received a grant from The Australia Council for the Arts.  He has also received creative grants from Vic Arts\, the University of Michigan\, and ArtServe Michigan. \n\n\n\nScores for many of Kevin’s compositions are available through Wirripang Publishing and the Australian Music Centre. \n\n\n\nKevin holds a Master’s degree and a Doctorate from the University of Michigan where his principal composition instructors were William Bolcom\, William Albright\, Michael Daugherty and Curtis Curtis-Smith. In Australia\, he has been mentored by notable Australian composers Richard Mills\, Gerard Brophy\, Maria Grenfell\, and Paul Stanhope.
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