📝 friction in social media is good for you?
John Mastodon already knows this.
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The case against efficiency: friction in social media - npj Complexity
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You may have noticed that I've recorded a track that uses a Mark Twain poem. Today, kinda bored, I decided to read the original short story over a light jam on a B-flat blues.
16 minutes, at SoundCould.
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Mark Twain's Punch Brothers Punch!
A Mark Twain Short Story (Punch Brothers, Punch!) (in the public domain) read by Daniel Orias with accompaniment by The Pomegranate County IrregularsSoundCloud
The Great Return: Inside Azerbaijan’s ambitious plan
For Azerbaijan, the Great Return is more than a government initiative, it is the fulfillment of a national dream, the restoration of communities longBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Applications open for six-month stint on Tasmania’s most remote island
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What fascinates me about this is the extent to which it happens on a subconscious level. You can consciously focus your attention on the sound and what it feels like to make it, and you can intentionally shape it toward a conscious goal. But you can’t be fully aware of what exactly you’re doing that works, and you can’t explain it later. You just have to get it into your body somehow until your body naturally does it.
This is also why I think sometimes the best teachers are people who struggled to learn it themselves. They had to think it through explicitly, so they learned how to talk about it and guide you through the process. Whereas sometimes someone who’s just a complete natural can do it effortlessly themselves, but they don’t really know how, don’t know why you can’t, and don’t know how to help you.
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You see this in sports too. At the highest levels, most great coaches were also competent players, but not that many were stars themselves.
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Of course there are also many great performers who are great teachers too. There’s no reason one can’t excel at both, but they’re different skills.
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So true. In my own field (not music), when I try to convey a new concept to students, I do so by explaining it to myself, as if new. I talk myself into it and let them listen in. Or rather, I talk to the material and ask it to explain itself to me, and the students take part in that dialogue.
If the subject is very familiar to me, I make every effort at seeing it afresh, looking for hidden links with other themes, deliberately creating uncertainty in my own understanding, so that I have an actual real need to sort it out for myself.
I imagine that when teaching a musical instrument, there's a similar need to make the materiality of the instrument be felt, not just by the student, but by the teacher too. (Speculating here; I haven't played an instrument since I took a few years of ineffective violin lessons as a young boy!)
As a shorthand, I say that good teachers are #autodidacts. Some of the master practitioners are, others aren't.
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@cassana @mcmullin My high school flute teacher assigned me the practice task of starting on the lowest possible note. Play a whole note, concentrating on the timbre, and slur up a half step to another whole note. Start again with that note, and slur up another half step. Continue until you reach the second C above the treble staff.
This helped immensely, and got my embouchure and breath support used to what they needed to do on a subconscious level.
(As a daily task, though, 17-year-old me found it endlessly boring.)
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My friend,
the climatologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the epidemiologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the historian, told me
this year
is just getting started.
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Week 306 of plague poems…
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Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Sixth Week
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Hey Heidi, can you pick and share a hashtag for people to use, if they choose to post here when they make a contribution? Like with #Mastodon4Harris ?
Maybe #Mastodon4Minneapolis ?
I like to follow the hashtags, give 'em a 👍, plus I get to see people's accounts I'll probably like to follow.
Just an idea.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Issues Rare Invitation to Foreign Military Heads (Eric Schmitt/New York Times)
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Issues Rare Invitation to Foreign Military Heads
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