Cornelius Boots is a woodwinding pioneer, composer and root philosopher. He is a nanotheist and elemental-nature lover. After a 30-year career of high-caliber jazz, classical, rock and experimental music activities (on multiple woodwinds with a focus on the bass clarinet), Boots has now positioned himself at the crossroads of personal expression and divine revelation, exclusively playing bamboo shakuhachi (jinashi/hotchiku) and its baritone brother, Taimu. He is the founder of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, and composes music for The Heavy Roots Shakuhachi Ensemble, the world’s first bass shakuhachi group. (For bass clarinet and Edmund Welles-related information, go here.)
Music from episode by Cornelius Boots:
“Black Earth” from Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III)
“IV. Dark Hallow” and “V. Wood Prophecy” from Wood Prophecy
Ana Mendieta was an interdisciplinary artist, referring to herself as a sculptor. She is best known for her earth/body works, most specifically her now iconic Silueta Series, in which she used her body, and later the absence of the body, in the landscape
Our task is not to save anyone, nor the world, not even ourselves
Beirut, 1988 The question of why me has haunted meYou put a machine gun to my head, you got her on her kneesDecades later, an unanswered question and a traumatized brain This terror is hard to shakeI tried meditation and it has been the sameFor all this
A new track of music featuring Sounds of SAND guest and SAND Conference speaker Federico Faggin. This track features the voice of Federico with Fmusic by Chiara Dubey, Robot Koch, Foam and Sand and released by Livana Music. “By Being at Peace with
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Keep my anger from becoming meanness
The sun rises in merciless contemplation / Silvering a still-sleeping Mediterranean Sea
