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One Note of Zen (WB3)

By spry on January 21, 2012 9:41 pm

This song was inspired by a Zen koan.  It was written in LSDJ and performed in live mode.  It is the first stage of a ongoing collaborative project with George Bowles. 

The koan:

After Kakua visited the emperor he disappeared and no one knew what became of him. He was the first Japanese to study Zen in China, but since he showed nothing of it, save one note, he is not remembered for having brought Zen into his country.

Kakua visited China and accepted the true teaching. He did not travel while he was there. Meditating constantly, he lived on a remote part of a mountain. Whenever people found him and asked him to preach he would say a few words and then move to another part of the mountain where he could be found less easily.

The emperor heard about Kakua when he returned to Japan and asked him to preach Zen for his edification and that of his subjects.

Kakua stood before the emperor in silence. He then produced a flute from the folds of his robe, and blew one short note. Bowing politely, he disappeared.

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Love some Eastern philosophy (or Western I guess, depending on your perspective) anecdotes.  And I'm constantly impressed by the chip tunes on here.  Came in with very limited knowledge of the subject, but I have to say that some people on here can really fsu with them.  Nice work.

nice experimental track!!

Whoa!  Got some serious Atari Teenage Riot goin' on here.

I would love this one with a hectic and heavy bass under it ... I would try something like that ... nice percussion patterns

first off, sorry it took a long time to comment. so many songs and yours was at the end of the playlist almost, so I was half asleep when I heard this the first time.

that said, really digging this, spry! yknow, it reminds me of some older Third Eye Foundation. like back when he first started. it you haven't heard TEF, I recommend getting the early stuff such as 'Ghost', 'Semtex', and 'Sound of Violence' (which especially sounds like this track!) and the album 'Little Lost Soul'. omg, some of the best drum and bass I've ever heard, it actually kind of is in no genre but its own.

anyway, nice track! so are we doing remixes of these in a couple weeks? gonna be awesome...

@lien, @alex, @scott, thanks for listenings!

@wheely, that may have to happen at some point

@george, yea i cant wait to get to that smile  got a few ideas to kick out before that.  i really enjoyed your track this week and i think the two of these have a lot of potential to mix well.  there were a ton of songs this week with a lot of new faces.  im pretty stoked at where this is project is going right now!

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Insanely cool!

cool, let me know which week you want to do the remix on, I won't start on it til then

get on spry, this is thumping.

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