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Lara Manzanares “The Message of the Myth.” Moyers: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. Prod. Catherine Tatge. PBS. WNET, New York. 22 May 1988. While the entire Power of Myth series is a valuable resource, in this particular segment Joseph Campbell explores duality in myths and stories. It is a good reference for how we function and handle transition through stories and rituals. *Class: “Pure Music.” San Francisco: Zambaleta World Music and Dance School, 2010. Teacher: Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, New Directions in Indian Music Last semester and this summer, I took three classes in Indian Classical Voice and “Pure Music” with Gautam. He opened my eyes to a new way of looking at music – he showed how Indian music embraces and uses the space in between notes nearly as much as the notes themselves. Khan, Hazrat Inayat. The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Boston: Shambala, 1991. It’s difficult to explain this book right now – all I can say really is that when I think about my past work and try to explain it, all I know is that deep inside it, inside everything, there is a sort of a “buzzzzzzzzz-hummmmmmmm” that emanates from a deeper place than can be explained. This sound – or rather, it’s more than a sound, it’s a vibration – does not only apply to myself, but is present in everything around – the harmony of all objects, the buzz-hum for example, of an entire stadium full of people milling around and interacting as viewed from the Goodyear Blimp. I am hoping that reading this book will help me elucidate some of these intuitions and help me explain them more effectively. Lynch, David. Mulholland Dr. Los Angeles, 2001. David Lynch’s storytelling style – seemingly random, but primally interconnected – he tells much more than a story. The crux of his piece is in the passage that we go through but that is never explicitly shown in the movie. His visuals draw out the meta: A doorway that is gone through turns completely black as the camera encounters it, and the resulting “emergence” on the other side, is as if we have been taken through some kind of a portal. Doorways are, for Lynch, more than just doorways. Sottsass, Ettore. Design Metaphors. Milan: Idea Books, 1987. Really great, contemplative book. Contains some interesting visualizations in the section “Design for the destinies of man” in particular. Doorways are used as metaphors for our trek into the future . The installations in the book use architectural and design elements comprised mostly of fabric and string and places them in mountains, deserts, etc. Campbell, Joseph (editor). Man and Transformation: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. This may come in handy – not sure yet exactly how- 4
Lara Manzanares *Manzanares, Lara. Busking. San Francisco: Street Singing by Lara, 2010. For the past ten years, I have played publicly for money at Farmer’s Markets. Within the last year, I have moved my busking practice into the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District. I have, in effect, placed myself in what is, for many people, a transitional space. I interact with people directly in the middle of their journey from one point to another: I am the soundtrack for a few seconds of their in-between. Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994. While this book mainly deals mainly with issues particular to post-colonialism, it might be an interesting read in order to explore Bhabha’s idea of inhabiting liminal space as a form of resistance. Also – we are living in a post-colonial world, and through this reading I might find ways to expand my explorations outward from myself and apply them to broader social themes. *Manzanares, Lara. Form Studio Journal. San Francisco: handwritten journal, 2009. During explorations for CCA’s Form Studio class in 2009, I kept a journal with sketches and thoughts inspired by Martin Venezky, and my classmates’ and my own explorations. This is an invaluable process resource. It contains a wealth of ideas which will inform the research and development methods of my thesis exploration. *Manzanares, Lara. Essays. San Francisco: song essays presented in a blog, 2009. http://lmanzanares.blogs.cca.edu/ Like the Form Studio Journal, this piece will guide my exploration process and help me work through difficult spots. When I began this journal, it was a chore. I came home every day and told myself, “I don’t want to do this, I just want to sing…” And then I thought, well hey, who says I can’t? At that moment, an entire world of possibilities opened up, and the results that I produced went well beyond those of a “classroom journal.” I use this as a (much-needed) reminder that I can trust myself. World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 1989. I photocopied a couple of images, and looked up the definition of 'threshold' Kandinsky, Wassily. Point and Line to Plane. New York: Dover, 1979. ("Originally published in 1926 as Punkt und Linie zu Flache, the ninth in a series of fourteen Bauhaus books edited by Walter Gropius and L. Moholy-Nagy.") Need to figure out what this guy was up to. N 70 .K313 Abbott, Edwin A. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. New York: Dover, 1952. Need to read this, will be a quick read – Interesting way of expressing visual qualities in a spatial and narrative way… brings the flat visual into architectural and temporal headspace. Also related to Kandinsky’s theories as well as Mondrian’s 5
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