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    The Bureaucrat as Philosopher-Poet

    Driving through New Mexico on Thursday, and saw a lot of these signs.



    Apparently others, too, have detected a philosophical depth herein not normally seen in highway signage.

    Gusty Winds May Exist is a duo that began with a free improvisation on a mountain in New Mexico, at the Advanced Deep Listening Retreat led by composer Pauline Oliveros. Nancy Beckman brings experience in the meditative solo tradition of shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) as well as more extroverted techniques of intuitive improvisation. Recorder player Tom Bickley brings experience performing early European music and new music using extended techniques. The music created by Gusty Winds May Exist places these traditions in the same time and space and explores the sonic world that results.

    Based in San Francisco, California and Washington, DC, Beckman and Bickley continue their collaborative music making through transcontinental telepathic duets. At an agreed-upon time they sit in meditation for a few minutes, then each records a live improvisation in their respective studios, and later combine the two recordings into one piece.
    https://archive.org/details/gusty-winds-may-exist

    "Gusty Winds May Exist" has also been given life as a song title by the Pawn Drive Folk Band.

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    My favorite New Mexico road sign...



    You see a lot of them. For a long time, they were just UFO stickers slapped on cattle crossing signs. DOT would go around every once in a while and take them down. Now, it appears some places have made them more permanent.
    “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater

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    Gusty Winds May Exist should be added to the forum header.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    I should take a pic of it but 10 miles down the highway from me is a sign that says "report shootings from highway" and naturally the sign is riddled with bullet holes.


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