Fred Frith- workshop on extended guitar techniques

Seminal guitarist Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Art Bears, Skeleton Crew, Massacre) gives a seminar on guitar techniques at the 2007 Output Festival a three day event that occurred in Amsterdam in celebration of the electric guitar in composed music.

Iannis Xenakis on electronic composition

"With the aid of electronic computers, the composer becomes a sort of pilot: pressing buttons, introducing coordinates and supervising the controls of a cosmic vessel sailing in the space of sound, across sonic constellations and galaxies that could formerly be glimpsed only in a distant dream."

-Iannis Xenakis, Formalised Music, 1971

Andres Segovia- Song of the Guitar

murder for a jar of red rum

When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Through the Looking Glass Project Gutenburg online text

Don't move.
Just die over and over.

Don't anticipate.
Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment.
Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments.

With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully.
Don't move.

-Shunryu Suzuki