#Peter Walker

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Luan Peters with Virginia Wetherell - Peter Walker

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The Invisible Man!

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i've been poking around at Blender's greasepencil, it's surprisingly easy to me? heres a neat animation test i did with my boi

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Schizo (1976)

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N°9 Peter Walker and Tony Rolt - ERA E ERA 1.5 L6s - N°17 Eugène Martin - Talbot-Lago T26C-DA Talbot 23CV 4.5 L6 - Grand Prix de Grande Bretagne - Silverstone 1950. - source F1 Old and New.

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Arthur King — Changing Landscapes (Zompopa) (AKP)

Changing Landscapes (Zompopa) by Arthur King

The Zompopa, or leaf-cutter ant, lives in large, complex societies, organized into a caste system, with different types of ants taking on different roles in maintaining the colony. Like humans, they are agriculturalists, fertilizing and cultivating various types of fungus which, in turn, feeds their populations. Peter Walker — not the flamenco-influenced guitarist but the ambient composer from Los Angeles at the center of Arthur King — spent time in the Costa Rican rainforest, recording the sounds of this insect society. With David Ralicke and Mia Doi Todd, he then improvised music over these recordings for a haunting set of tracks.

Through Arthur King and other projects, Walker explores the act of listening as a spiritual practice. In an interview with 15Questions, he describes his affinity with the writings of Carl Jung. “Jung suggests that by aligning and opening our senses away from our usual, intellectual filter, we can experience the vast world of the unknown, the unconscious, and even the numinous,” he said.  Changing Landscapes (Zompopa) is, indeed, a deeply affecting listening experience, melding the twittering, chittering serenity of the tropical wild with angelic vocals (Mia Doi Todd in particularly lovely form), electronics and other instruments.

The disc begins in a lingering drone, the high wordless singing of Doi Todd floating weightlessly over it, a slow gathering of timbres coalescing in serenity and meditative contemplation. This is “La Reina” the cut dedicated to the ant colony’s queen, and it is very subtly laced with a high, scraping, percussive sound that must be some magnified version of the sound that Zompopa ants produce.

Walker is frank about the limits of entering an alien world through sound. We don’t hear what the ants hear because we’re not ants. We don’t have the same equipment for sensing vibration. And yet, there is something very immersive and foreign about these musical piece, even embellished as they are by recognizable human elements—blasts of synthesizer, delicate chimes and bells, even a saxophone wandering through these eerie landscapes. “March Into the Colony” stirs into action on a propulsive, glitch-like beat; you only realize in retrospect that its rhythms are constructed out of insect sounds. The long closer “Funeral de Zompopa” brings these sounds the furthest into the forefront, so that Doi Todd’s melodic musings and dream-like drifts of trumpet drift over a bed of intricate, unfamiliar scratchings.  

As humans, we don’t like ants very much. The idea of hundreds, thousands, even millions of them coordinated in their own purposeful existence, growing food, protecting against enemies, reproducing, might well give you the willies. Changing Landscapes (Zompopa) brings us into alignment with this strange, unexplored world and lets you feel connection with a species you might not have considered otherwise.

Jennifer Kelly

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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum opened to the public on May 21, 2014.  

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Valerie (1957) Gerd Oswald

December 30th 2022

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Luan Peters with Virginia Wetherell - Peter Walker @gradezmovies

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One of my favorite Spitting Image songs (from Series 7 Episode 1)

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heres a short silly thing i did and forgot to share. Peter half-animated to one of his voice claims (Boffy) maybe ill color it or add more frames one day but thisll work for now

[Transcript: “Listen, I’ve been getting some comments from people saying I’m a narcissist, or that I’m a sociopath, or that the way I act and talk “scares them”... So today I’m talking about entire species I would euthanize if I were god.”]

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when the fandom is so small that everybody knows everybody

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When y/n gets too annoying to the point you want to stop reading