The Guardian for this meeting was szavanna Resident. The comments are by szavanna Resident.

szavanna Resident: 's current display-name is "Sunshine".
szavanna Resident: hi Eos :)
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Sun (listening to the sitar .... :-)
szavanna Resident: welcome to Monday :)
szavanna Resident: I was in the India mood today
szavanna Resident: found some music from Anoushka Shankar
szavanna Resident: and was back to the ragas :)
Eos Amaterasu: hmmm.... "Morning and Evening Ragas", by Ali Akbar Khan, is my all time fav

szavanna Resident: :))
szavanna Resident: is that an album name?
Eos Amaterasu: Yes
szavanna Resident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFXN61RGO4
szavanna Resident: found a video
Eos Amaterasu: and, by coincidence, current fav musical discovery is Susan Tedeschi/Derek Trucks doing "Midnight in Harlem" in a very raga like way (Derek studied with Khan)
Eos Amaterasu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkdC...xx2l8A&index=1
Eos Amaterasu: (4 ltr)
Eos Amaterasu: The Evening Raga is one of the purest and most dignified (interesting word) pieces of music I know
szavanna Resident: ooo very interesting
szavanna Resident: Ali Akbar Khan (Bengali: আলী আকবর খাঁ) (14 April 1922 – 18 June 2009), often referred to as Khansahib or by the title Ustad (master), was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod.
szavanna Resident: just making notes
szavanna Resident: I forget sometimes the name of the indian instruments
Eos Amaterasu: sarod is slightly less twangy version of sitar :-)
szavanna Resident: I listen in :)
szavanna Resident: Tedeschi Trucks Band - "Midnight in Harlem" (eTown web exclusive)
szavanna Resident: this one :)
Eos Amaterasu: ummm......
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szavanna Resident: oh I know this one
szavanna Resident: °͜°
szavanna Resident: so he learned from Ali Akbar Khan?
Eos Amaterasu: yes
Eos Amaterasu: that particular performance is so good, mixture of pain and beauty
szavanna Resident: beautiful song
szavanna Resident: sigh :)
szavanna Resident: gonna check out their music
Eos Amaterasu: re-experiencing in freshness, music can do that
szavanna Resident: what do you mean by - re-experiencing in freshness?
szavanna Resident: and how can music do it
szavanna Resident: hehe sorry I am so lost in this music now
Eos Amaterasu: the stuff of our daily lives, the emotions, from petty to operatic and both :-)
Eos Amaterasu: re-experienced in some kind of more open space
Eos Amaterasu: with different kinds of resonances, plays, humors, discoveries
szavanna Resident: I started this music project in SL .... starting afresh
Eos Amaterasu listens
szavanna Resident: suddenly everything makes a noise
szavanna Resident: has a melody
szavanna Resident: and everything is singable
szavanna Resident: ;o)
Eos Amaterasu: nada brahma
szavanna Resident: from the telephone book to jeff foster
szavanna Resident: ;P
Eos Amaterasu: (sound god)
szavanna Resident: nada brahma?
Eos Amaterasu: Hindu discussion of sound (nada) as brahma and vice versa... (the big bang struck a chord :-)
szavanna Resident: oh °͜°
szavanna Resident: I started playing when I was 7
Eos Amaterasu: how, what, ....
szavanna Resident: so I am really used to focusing on the sound
szavanna Resident: oh we all started playing
Zen Arado: 's current display-name is "Zen".
szavanna Resident: in hungary everyone did
szavanna Resident: hi Zenji :)
Eos Amaterasu: hi Zen
Eos Amaterasu: piano, violin, ....?
szavanna Resident: we are talking about nada brahma
Zen Arado: Hi Sunji Eos
szavanna Resident: the divinity in sound
szavanna Resident: violin
Zen Arado: oh?
szavanna Resident: :)
Eos Amaterasu: and re-experiencing in freshness thru music
Zen Arado: I don't hear sitar
Eos Amaterasu: I don't hear it anymore either
szavanna Resident: Zenji listen to this
szavanna Resident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czla...Oeg4BWnIxx2l8A
szavanna Resident: I play silently :)
Zen Arado: yes ia habve that track
szavanna Resident: its so great
Zen Arado: Eos suggested it one time
szavanna Resident: ahh I see °͜°
Zen Arado: I am open to suggestions
szavanna Resident: Eos do you play instruments?
szavanna Resident: Zenji wanna play for us while we chat about music?
Eos Amaterasu: I have in the past played some piano, and recorder(s)
szavanna Resident: not anymore?
Zen Arado: on stream?
szavanna Resident: yes Zenji ...may be
szavanna Resident: since we are exploring sound
Zen Arado: what do you want?
Eos Amaterasu: not much lately.... listening more
Zen Arado: Daft Punk?
szavanna Resident: my be its a good idea to refresh your music skills :)
Eos Amaterasu: music on a theme of freshness?
Zen Arado: new labum out today
szavanna Resident: ok Zenji whatever is nearby
Eos Amaterasu: I listen to different performances of the same piece on YouTube
szavanna Resident: like this one?
szavanna Resident: to see how different people interpret it?
Zen Arado: it's as easy to listen on Youtube really as stteam
Eos Amaterasu: re Midnight in Harlem, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkdC...xx2l8A&index=1 is my favorite (and it brings out the sitar aspect really well)
szavanna Resident: true
Zen Arado: sometimes you get better performances on Youtube
szavanna Resident: ok then lets listen on youtube
Zen Arado: longer live performances
Eos Amaterasu: re-experience famous live performances of the past: kind of amazing
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szavanna Resident: listening °͜°
szavanna Resident: I usually get all high when I get to shows
Zen Arado: do they play anything else nice?
szavanna Resident: when I go to a live concert
Zen Arado: hard to classify these bands
szavanna Resident: as soon as I see the stage
Zen Arado: blues? country?
szavanna Resident: I get all mesmerised
szavanna Resident: °͜°
Zen Arado: don't need categories I guess
szavanna Resident: aww Eos crashed
szavanna Resident: yes they are mixing things
Zen Arado: I was writing
Zen Arado: have to rewrite SL story
szavanna Resident: sl story?
Zen Arado: tutor doesn't like first draft
szavanna Resident: ah really - why?
Zen Arado: too much SL not enough RL
Zen Arado: finds SL strange
szavanna Resident: ah
szavanna Resident: its for that course
Zen Arado: yes
szavanna Resident: lol not easy to get SL
szavanna Resident: it seems
szavanna Resident: I felt right at home
szavanna Resident: hmm
Zen Arado: yeh they think it's weird
szavanna Resident: hehe
Zen Arado: I told her she was orejudiced
Zen Arado: :)
szavanna Resident: she was?
Zen Arado: not attuned to SL
szavanna Resident: prejudiced
szavanna Resident: ah °͜°
szavanna Resident: hmm its like
szavanna Resident: when people ask me about south africa
szavanna Resident: my old friends from hungary
szavanna Resident: its just impossible to explain
Zen Arado: mmm
szavanna Resident: new worlds give you fresh prespectives
szavanna Resident: °͜°
szavanna Resident: and newness or change in general
szavanna Resident: so you need to make a lot of changes?
Zen Arado: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ZlXpp79kk
szavanna Resident: click
Zen Arado: I like that
Zen Arado: far better than audio tack I have
Zen Arado: track
szavanna Resident: listening
Zen Arado: great atmosphere
Zen Arado: a hot day at a concert
szavanna Resident: Old Crow Medicine Show - CC Rider (Live from Bonnaroo 2011)
szavanna Resident: here we have jazz days
Zen Arado: yes
szavanna Resident: the family moves to the cricket pitch
szavanna Resident: for the day hehe
szavanna Resident: and they cook
szavanna Resident: kids play soccer
szavanna Resident: there is a huge stage
Zen Arado: wonder where Bonnaroo is
szavanna Resident: and one band after the other
Zen Arado: great
szavanna Resident: yes its fun
szavanna Resident: its an old tradition here - jazz days
szavanna Resident: http://www.bonnaroo.com/
szavanna Resident: Four-day, multi-stage camping festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee.
Zen Arado: yeh
szavanna Resident: Cape Town Jazz : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym778eL1ELY
szavanna Resident: big fest
Zen Arado: yes
szavanna Resident: I am so starved here when it comes to jazz
szavanna Resident: usually there is one big jazz day here every year
--BELL--
szavanna Resident: but last year it didn't happen
Zen Arado: I don't like jazz that much
Zen Arado: some of it
szavanna Resident: depends
szavanna Resident: here people play all sorts
szavanna Resident: a lot of the time fused with traditional melodies
Zen Arado: jazz and opera only forms of music I'm not so keen on
szavanna Resident: its very popular
szavanna Resident: hehe I don't like opera
Zen Arado: or very basic country music
szavanna Resident: but love jazz - the more melodic type
szavanna Resident: I love jazz that is melodic and dancable
Zen Arado: I can change
szavanna Resident: if it goes too abstract ...then I lose the connection with it
Zen Arado: yes
szavanna Resident: hehe you mean you wanna listen to more opera?
szavanna Resident: start with Freddy Mercury hehe
Zen Arado: no I don't like opera
Zen Arado: or musicals
szavanna Resident: what did you mean by "I can change"
Zen Arado: like Les Miserables
szavanna Resident: I don't really like those either
Zen Arado: well if I say i don't like something I might some day
szavanna Resident: yes
szavanna Resident: I used to love musicals
Zen Arado: I didn't like David Bowie for a long time
szavanna Resident: to me listening to musicals was a great way to learn English
szavanna Resident: for me he is a bit scary lol
Zen Arado: some French pop music is awful
szavanna Resident: hehe I just listened to hungarian pop
szavanna Resident: wait I show you
Zen Arado: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYl25lsOGo8
szavanna Resident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym778eL1ELY
Zen Arado: this nicer
szavanna Resident: click
szavanna Resident: ahh yay nice one
Zen Arado: it's hard revealing stuff about yourself in memoirs sometimes
Zen Arado: Mira is doing a lot of that on FB lately
szavanna Resident: is it all her stories?
Zen Arado: of her own life
szavanna Resident: the guy with the chekhoslovecian nose
szavanna Resident: hehe
szavanna Resident: not sure how to spell
Zen Arado: me either
Zen Arado: Checkoslovakian?
szavanna Resident: czechoslovakian
Zen Arado: ah
szavanna Resident: I don't have time to read them - but may be I will try
szavanna Resident: they seem fun
szavanna Resident: :)
Zen Arado: me too
szavanna Resident: so what is the difficult part of it
Zen Arado: read some
Zen Arado: revealing things about yourself
Zen Arado: personal things
szavanna Resident: hmm yes
szavanna Resident: even if you do .... people might totally misunderstand
szavanna Resident: or interpret it very differently
Zen Arado: they will no matter what you write
szavanna Resident: its normal
Zen Arado: as long as it is interesting
szavanna Resident: but nice to share with people that you feel more at home with
szavanna Resident: so you will have to redo your work?
szavanna Resident: will take some time
Zen Arado: I am writing about a relationship I had with a woman I met in SL
Zen Arado: have to write completely new story
szavanna Resident: kk
szavanna Resident: oh why
Zen Arado: 1st was too much in SL
szavanna Resident: but it is in sl
szavanna Resident: hmm
szavanna Resident: scratching head
Zen Arado: tutor said that wasn't interesting
szavanna Resident: hehe hmm
Zen Arado: needs RL
szavanna Resident: good exercise I suppose
Zen Arado: that's the way people think
szavanna Resident: nice to have a tutor
Zen Arado: SL isn't 'real'
szavanna Resident: gives you a different angle
szavanna Resident: hmm yes
--BELL--
szavanna Resident: SL is 10 years now
Zen Arado: that's how most people think
szavanna Resident: still regarded as something weird
Zen Arado: exactly
szavanna Resident: I just applied to exhibit at the birthday sims
szavanna Resident: as Sunvibes
szavanna Resident: :)
szavanna Resident: SL is like a secret langauge
szavanna Resident: language :)
Zen Arado: birthday sims?
szavanna Resident: http://slcommunitycelebration.com/
szavanna Resident: yes there will be about 30 sims
szavanna Resident: where people will exhibit
szavanna Resident: introduce their clubs
szavanna Resident: projects etc
szavanna Resident: and Sedi reminded me to do it
Zen Arado: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8
szavanna Resident: today is the deadline
szavanna Resident: click
Zen Arado: more like SL music
Zen Arado: :)
Zen Arado: see how many plays that has got?
Zen Arado: over 25 million
szavanna Resident: listening
szavanna Resident: really?
szavanna Resident: hehe
szavanna Resident: nice video
Zen Arado: maybe I should do West Coast Sounds this week Sunji?
szavanna Resident: up to you
szavanna Resident: west coast sounds?
szavanna Resident: like?
Zen Arado: Eagles, Fleetwood mac etc
szavanna Resident: its totally up to you :)
szavanna Resident: just tell me the bands
szavanna Resident: may be I can ask them to dress up in style
Zen Arado: well that's the main ones
szavanna Resident: if I know the bands
szavanna Resident: kk
szavanna Resident: show me a video
Zen Arado: Beach Boys?
Zen Arado: Di=oonie brothers
szavanna Resident: ah we had fun with the beach boys :)
Zen Arado: Doobie
szavanna Resident: ok it is really up to you
szavanna Resident: °͜°
szavanna Resident: may be you can send me an e-mail or video with the names
szavanna Resident: so that I can get them prepared
Zen Arado: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJqk2yWUGTM
szavanna Resident: once you know what theme
Zen Arado: like this?
szavanna Resident: checking °͜°
Zen Arado: you only need to say West Coast and they know
Zen Arado: California
szavanna Resident: nice I like it °͜°
szavanna Resident: hehe well I don't know
szavanna Resident: I am zulu ;p
Zen Arado: ah I forgot
szavanna Resident: hehe
szavanna Resident: and I grew up on ragas
szavanna Resident: so you can imagine hehe
szavanna Resident: ok not really
szavanna Resident: lol
Zen Arado: they think it's Africa West Coast
szavanna Resident: yes
szavanna Resident: so they will think of Fela
szavanna Resident: the Africans ;D
szavanna Resident: ok so lets do west coast
Zen Arado: sure
szavanna Resident: I will make a note
Zen Arado: plenty of material
szavanna Resident: and you can check for the English °͜°
szavanna Resident: great
szavanna Resident: they will love it
szavanna Resident: ;))
szavanna Resident: yay
szavanna Resident: ;))
Zen Arado: earlt Fleetwood mac was very bluesy
Zen Arado: Peter Green
szavanna Resident: I don't know them really
szavanna Resident: so I will enjoy the new things
szavanna Resident: :)
szavanna Resident: I like this one
szavanna Resident: hmm time for me to go
szavanna Resident: make fire
Zen Arado: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CT7mzrJunc
szavanna Resident: brrr :)
Zen Arado: kk
Zen Arado: me too
szavanna Resident: but IM anytime
Zen Arado: ever hear this one?
szavanna Resident: let me see
Zen Arado: a lovely old song
szavanna Resident: mmm yes
szavanna Resident: love these kind of songs
szavanna Resident: almost like folk songs
Zen Arado: quite sad
szavanna Resident: simple
szavanna Resident: yes
Zen Arado: from around 1970
szavanna Resident: hmm when I was born
szavanna Resident: :)
Zen Arado: :)
--BELL--
Zen Arado: dinnertime
szavanna Resident: ty for the music Zenji
szavanna Resident: enjoy dinner °͜°
Zen Arado: you too
Zen Arado: byee
szavanna Resident: see you soon ;))
Zen Arado: hugs
szavanna Resident: hugs ;)))