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The IChing or book of changes translated by Richard Wilhelm and then Cary F. Baynes
Free Culture: The nature and future of creativity by Lawrence Lessig
Life after death: the burden of proof by Deepak Chopra
I don’t like to read one book at a time. I’m currently reading three. I don’t feel like giving descriptions so look it up yourself. humbug.
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Minimalists by K. Robert Schwarz
It's about minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Phillip Glass, and Steve Reich (The other Fab Four).
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The New Music by Reginald Smith Brindle
This is a brief history of the Avant-garde since 1945 and written in 1975 yet this book is still highly enlightening especially for all those musicans who probably never had training in contemporary music. If you know what the notation for a quater tone sharp or flat looks like then you probably don’t need to read this book unless you like that sort of stuff like me. The author is a composer himself and offers a detailed description of what’s happened so far. It’s great.
American Music in the Twentieth Century by Kyle Gann
I haven’t started reading this yet but it’s cool, I can tell.
Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck
“A Psychedelic Journey into the heart of contemporary shamanism”. I had heard of Mr. Pinchbeck from the Psychdelic Salon podcast because they aired Daniel’s talks during the ‘03 and ‘05 burning man. I found this at the Ruiz Austin Public Library. Even the librarian who checked the book out for me told me it was worth reading. I guess I should make a link to all the podcasts I subscribe to…done. Anyways, this is a great read where the author goes to Bwiti tribe in Gabon to be initiated in the tribe by taking iboga root, a very dangerous and highly introspective drug that’s so powerful it can be used to cure heroin addictions. I’ve heard of iboga from the “African Vision Tribe” episode of Going Tribal. All cool stuff. Time to finish reading this.
