#jazz mass

[omegaremix]

Summer 2014 mixtape:

Pharmakon “Xia Xinfeng”

Mass Production “Slow Bump”

Atari Teenage Riot “Modern Liars”

Late! “Color Pictures Of A Marigold”

Peter Brown “For Your Love”

Black Marble A Different Arrangement

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Schnitzel Boogie”

Purling Hiss “Don’t Even Try It”

Omar Souleyman “Kell Il Banat Inkhatban (All The Girls Are Engaged)“

Cutthroats 9 Dissent

Poly Styrene (as Mari Elliott) “Silly Billy”

L.I.E.S. label Music For Shut-Ins (2013)

[spacestation-l7]

I had a dream where there’s a FAITH live action Netflix series produced and going to be released on 2025 and it has Hamish Linklater as John Ward and Samantha Sloyan as Amy Martin, then I woke up

[ferusaurelius]

Turian Culture Meta - Ferus Style

Yeah so -- ready to descend into crazyland? 

We’re gonna dive into some meta thoughts I have about what sort of cultural educational and military system would produce the interesting client-state relationship between the turian Hierarchy and the Vol Protectorate.

Disclaimer: The opinions of the author (me) are naturally my own and are not intended to argue for or against anyone else’s ideas. This is not even intended to be an interpretation of canon, in point of fact. Canon doesn’t have much to say about things that actually interest me. -shrug-

This is my ‘plausible’ version of conceptual options and social structures that canon either glosses over or fumbles entirely. Because it’s just not interested in these ideas, really ... BUT I AM. :D

If you find any of these concepts compelling? Fantastic, please liberate them! Go and use them in any or all transformative work with or without attribution.

I really Do Not Want to be the only one writing this stuff, so... be welcome!

Full post (long) underneath the cut.

The Situation

The turian Hierarchy makes first contact with the Citadel some 1000 years after the volus have drawn up the Unified Banking Act (300 B.C.E.) and have a thriving economic network of colonies after discovering FTL travel. The volus in point of fact have more than a millennia of advanced experience in working with multi-species ventures and are a pillar of the galactic economy long before the turians finish off their brutal Unification Wars.

If you took just the game’s on-screen hints as fact, none of this is evident in the galaxy by the time Shepard encounters volus on the Citadel. They’re treated as a sort of minor curiosity in comparison to the turian characters -- whether because of the mask, or just because economics is “less interesting” in a AAA-shooter. OH WELL.

Another interesting element is that the volus are “accepted” as a protectorate of the Hierarchy around 700 C.E., shortly after the Krogan rebellions.

To my mind, this is translation for: the Hierarchy’s war economy in the aftermath of the Krogan rebellions would have collapsed without the intervention of volus administrators, economists, logicians, and other bureaucratic types. What the Hierarchy DOES have of a peacetime bureaucracy was likely or nearly entirely trained and reformed by the Vol Protectorate’s extremely professional civil service. Fight a series of wars and warlords in the colonies for around 1000 years while someone else is running the galactic banking system ... and you’re probably woefully behind the curve in that area, just saying.

When you’ve “elevated” one warlike species (the Krogan) and then been surprised that they’ve gone on to aggressively contest the rest of Citadel space, it even seems likely/possible that this was a grand strategic bargain on the part of the Citadel species to avoid the turians becoming a “second” Krogan incident.

A values-driven and rules-based collectivist civil society that managed to transition to a peacetime footing without an accompanying economic collapse would be a much more stable galactic force ... plus you get the opportunity to fill in C-Sec ranks, develop a galactic security fleet (employing turian Dreadnoughts), and use those related tasks and duties to bring turians (an otherwise very militaristic society with a historical doctrine of total war) into better compliance as galactic citizens. In essence: the Vol Protectorate gives the Hierarchy something to protect rather than conquer.

Naturally, turian cultural perspectives on the purpose of the Hierarchy and the relative values of the culture probably run the gamut from the more imperialistic Unification and pre-Unification end of the spectrum to the more socially/galatically communitarian version of the Hierarchy, itself, as a participant in creating civil society within the Milky Way.

When in doubt? I prefer to view individuals on a spectrum or continuum of different possible viewpoints -- and to prefer that a full spectrum of interpretations be available to my characters. So that’s the type of environment I’d use as backdrop for, say, a fic.

Education (Given: The Situation)

Which takes us back to the Hierarchy’s mandatory service culture and boot camp at age 15, with mandatory service from age 15-30.

“Public service” as opposed to private industry is more a matter of organization and aims than it is a limitation of ‘choices.’ Take, for instance, the example of ‘national’ industries owned by a state. Any state-owned enterprise might conceivably count toward ‘public service’ citizen credit. These enterprises could include everything from arts museums and public art projects (ala the Works Projects Administration of Roosevelt Depression-era US policy) to industrial fabricators, dockyards, and other collectively owned and operated institutions.

Note that I also don’t equate state-owned industry to CENTRALLY-PLANNED industry! You might, in a turian society that prizes both individual accountability AND public service, have for instance a federated system of local control within a centrally-organized public works or other department.

Fair warning: this is my professional bureaucrat side talking. There are MANY aspects of infrastructure, particularly public works infrastructure, that are site- and context-dependent. Central planning of these features quite literally doesn’t work outside of administration and funding (which you WANT organized in larger packages if possible, to secure the best possible loan terms). 

I also imagine that a public service-oriented society would work on incorporating the economic fates of its outer colonies into the trading lanes and patterns of the central Hierarchy (in order to secure greater loyalty and collective bargaining power, alongside the Vol Protectorate’s economic management engine).

So what would education in a “man-of-action”/”public service” society look like? I’d think more a system of apprenticeships and practical qualification or on-the-job (OJT) training and certification where available! 

A boot camp experience is usually important both for training in values and standard procedures, so it’s less likely to vary appreciably between any one place and another beyond basics related to climate and environment. I’d expect boot camp training to be purposely standardized -- individual accountability doesn’t necessarily lead me to conclude that turians would be keen to judge themselves on anything other than “demonstrated merit” (and testing would be ONE part, but probably not the most significant -- outside of genuine performance on practical tasks, and the ability to produce measurable results!).

Pre-boot-camp education would likely be designed to expose juveniles to as many professions as possible -- there’s a bit in the codex about the turian respect for “knowing one’s place” and finding a comfortable place where the individual best serves the community (rather than individual prestige or economic gain). This would also track with turians being ‘poor’ entrepreneurs (i.e. less inclined to start their own businesses for profit, or with less opportunity when they’re in State-mandated service) ... and account for some of the distrust of ‘merc-born’ turians who chose to opt out of the traditional Hierarchy structure.

I’d also expect a classical turian education to include emphasis on health, community values, and being able to communicate in a general way with their volus partners/collaborators in areas that are less often viewed as strengths of turian culture (aka: economics and business, anyone?).

If turian culture is truly militaristic and communitarian, both, and formed around a sort of military hierarchy, that society will also be shaped by what doctrine views as effective deployment of force and possible missions and required capabilities In military terms, this would be defined both by a theoretical ‘ideal’ force structure and various desired concepts of operations.

Military Doctrine (Given: The Situation)

So, what capabilities would be valuable for the turian Hierarchy to provide to the galaxy? What are its internal needs? What are the needs of its closest allies and partners?

We already know (or suspect) that Dreadnoughts are one sign of military status. These immense warships are required to secure and hold space stations and other important remote outposts, alongside the smaller cruisers, frigate wolfpacks, and other space Navy-type forces.

We can also consider C-Sec (civil and criminal investigation on the Citadel, security for ports, anti-smuggling operations, etc.) as a separate civil branch and outgrowth of skills are learned and taught within the Hierarchy and something of a stereotypical (and desirable!) turian job outside of Hierarchy space.

Other valuable services provided by the Hierarchy include staffing and operating a force (32 fleets!) large enough to secure not just Hierarchy space but also to protect the Citadel. Turians canonically value combined arms and disciplined maneuver warfare, decentralized command-and-control, and are also the primary military arm and security force for the rest of the galaxy.

In summary: the turians are so good at staffing and maintaining fleets that the rest of the Council species seem to prefer handing these civil functions over to the turians in proportion to their relative expertise and cultural strengths.

All of the above implies that turian culture would need to be an extraordinarily flexible (structurally) society, if individually somewhat set and rigid in expectations and values for fulfilling assigned duties.

I’d believe that assignments, once given, were equivalent to anyone else’s ultimatum! I’d also imagine that turians would find it VERY personally important to seek out roles where they could fulfill all potential assignments to the best of their individual abilities, and that ‘finding’ that place/role in society would be akin to a life path.

Amateurs Study Tactics

A short aside that warfighting ability, alone, at least on an individual level, is a minor strength in comparison to building an effective collaborative combined arms force. The organization required at an individual level? Not much! Just personal training and supply.

Problems mount as soon as the force expands in size, complexity, and desired mission capabilities. I could see volus economists and logicians, as well as military scholars, being the preeminent organizers and administrators of turian force structures. I could see the volus economic influence being a quite effective force multiplier for the turian Hierarchy, in terms of creatively organizing fleets and their sub-units into autonomous mission-capable interchangeable “parts” which all know how to work together and communicate to achieve complex adaptability and integration of vastly different forces, hardware, and weapons systems at a variety of scales (from galactic, to orbital, to low-orbit, to planetside ground).

Which leads us to ...

Professionals Study Logistics

This is just the study of the application of “effective force.” What makes a force effective? It needs to be supplied with personnel and materiel such that it can accomplish its assigned mission -- preserve the capability of the force through the supply of the necessary tools at the right time, alongside the ability to maintain, repair, replace, or rotate those tools as needed.

A force that has been improperly positioned (is too far forward of supply lines, or too far in the rear to be applied at the right time) is by definition an ineffective force. It is unavailable to accomplish the mission.

There’s a long, rich tradition of economists studying the choice behaviors of nations seeking war, the application of deterrence, and the conditions of victory and defeat on a multitude of different battlefields in different historical and cultural contexts. We get just about NONE of this (barring some high-level generalizations) in Mass Effect, proper!

If we did, we might have seen a bit more nuance in illustrating the Vol Protectorate as not just the economic backbone of Citadel space, but also the preeminent experts in military grand strategy and supply. They’re likely the most closely associated Citadel species and have the most experience collaborating with turian systems of organization! The volus would be just as good at turian military history as turians are, if not BETTER observers and critics on the logistics/economics side, in terms of patterns of thinking and history!

At some point I’m going to have to write the “lessons learned” memo on the First Contact War from the point of view of an eminent volus logistician and economist (ala Thomas Schelling).

Because I’m a nerd, and if the FCW was a failure due to logistics and supply errors? You can just BET the volus were kept out of the First Contact loop as a some sort of power play on the part of less-qualified frontline personnel... no, they’re not salty about that, why do you ask?

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HATE ME YET? Yeah, I can’t stop thinking about this stuff, either ... and now you know why my fanfiction is the way it is. :D

[coralsgrimes]

Friday morning I have a little exercise for ye all! Without looking at the publication dates, try to decide which 'interview' is about new music and which is old.

Self plagiarism check failed lol

also metro? It's like even worse than daily mail at time xd also yeah I know they have the same owner (me thinks) but metro is free lol

[telekitnetic-art]

I’ve been feeling really pessimistic about the AI “art” rise in the animation industry (thanks, Bob) and how it’s gonna impact my career post-graduation (I graduate next spring) and even though I’m nervous and worn down about it, one thing I’m sort of taking comfort in is that even if the animation industry keeps self-imploding, I can still do formline art. Maybe that’s a little self-aggrandizing, but i truly think formline art is one of the things AI can really, truly, never replicate. This goes for all forms of art ofc, but over all my studies I’ve come to the sort of understanding that formline art is more then just art; it’s a storytelling device too, and it conveys my culture. Formline art has a specific rhythm to it and a history to it that can’t be learned by a machine in a way that truly conveys and understands our culture. Formline art takes real work to learn and making it is all about the process. You learn the shapes, you learn the animals and their spirit, you learn the intricate patterns and the cultural relevance it has. you don’t just look at it and try to replicate it like some art scalpers or a machine does. You don’t get the spiritual and cultural connection from feeding a machine over and over again.

At the end of the day, AI can never truly be human, and thus it can never really replicate my nation’s culture and feel our history, and so it can never truly replicate formline art too.

[maretriarch]

coming to the horrifying realization that i actually do want to be an artist while fully knowing how dumb and ill advised that is

[flowerpowergoth]

check out my playlist for my fanfic! (Can’t post the first chapter yet but here’s my playlist no one asked for anyway)

[javiersprincess]

what pet names do you think jake would use referring to you?

thank u jazz for letting me be annoying and talk about this blue man.

jake’s a classic kind of guy; babe, baby, sweetheart come as easy to him as loving you and he doesn’t stray from this path often unless its a specific romantic situation or occasion. calling you petnames in na’vi comes out here - yawnetu, yawntutsyip or even syulang straight from his heart

[dustedmagazine]

See Jazz — Is This Anything (Flower Sounds)

Photo by Colin Marchon 

See Jazz’s “1982” reminds me of a song that rarely comes up in comparisons, one so singular and, in its way, perfect, that it seems not to have left much of a trail on the world, even as lesser songs get copied repeatedly. I’m talking here about Felt’s “Primitive Painters,” with its crystalline oscillating riff, its blooming surges of guitar and organ sound, its rocketing drums and, finally, its vocal duet between Verlaine-channeling Martin and dream-drenched Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins. Though home recorded and not nearly as epic, “1982” has that same vertiginous balance between tremulous, astral ideality and wounded, grounded vulnerability, the same contrast between ragged doubt and heavenly solace. If See Jazz’s Aaron Pfannebecker were asking me the question in his title, I’d point to this track first. Yes, indeed, this right here. This is something.

Pfannebecker comes from Western Mass but lives now in New York City, and though he hasn’t accumulated much of a musical catalogue as yet, he is well connected in both places. That’s Langellotti of Kurt Vile and the Violators playing bass on all but one tracks. Fellow Pioneer Valley native Jed Smith, of the Jeanines and My Teenage Strides turns up for the outlier, the new-wave-into-sad-boy disco “Dance With Me,” which evokes both Fine Young Cannibals and the Pet Shop Boys. The woman with the floaty, airy, too-perfect-to-be-real voice is Zara Bode from Sweetback Sisters.

However well-backed he may be, Pfannebecker sticks mostly to instruments he can man himself—programmed drums, unearthly organs and electronic keyboards, guitar and voice. Is This Anything? is obviously influenced by some big, well-financed, professionally recorded sounds—early 1980s new wave, particularly—but it, in itself, feels home-made. You can catch a whiff of the Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, even Wham! in the suave keyboards and bass of “American Possibilities,” but there’s something naked and yearning in the vocals.

Nothing else here is quite as good as “1982,” though “Dance with Me,” comes closest. Yet that one track is arresting enough to make you wonder what’s next and whether See Jazz’s giant ambitions and low-key execution will find as ideal a balance again.

Jennifer Kelly

[omniblades-and-stars]

"His son," he answered with a smile. Even fewer people were so hated by their families that they would independently hire someone to kill them. "Do you have any questions for me?"

The Shepherd cocked her head and furrowed her brow. Her question fell from her lips quietly and without preamble, and it detonated like a hydrogen bomb, "If I die tonight, will you mourn me? There isn’t anyone else." She fumbled her words and hastened to add, "Who would even notice, much less care if I die, I mean."

The aftershock rolled into him and sent blood thundering through his chest. "Yes, I mourn you every time, " he answered sincerely and before he could grasp the magnitude of his own words. "Shepherd, if Kalahira calls me to the sea tonight, will you mourn for me?"

"Yes. Every time."

_____

Thane Krios meets his rival assassin, The Shepherd, for the last time.

They are caught in each other's violence and washed in desire.

And they swear, this time will be the last time they see each other. One of them has to die.

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for June 2, 2021, #265.

Johnny Hammond: “Why Can’t We Smile” (ver.)

Funk Fusion Band: “Can You Feel It”

Michael Soward: “Standing On The Top”

Quarteto Em Cy: “Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser”

Ana Mazzotti: “Feel Like Making Love”

Abahambi: “Abahambi”

Asiko Rock Group: “Lagos City”

Creative Funk: “Funk Power”

Lafayette Afro Rock Band: “Hihache”

Gary Byrd: “Soul Travelin’ Pt. 1 (The G.B.E.)“

Jack Wilkins: “Naima”

Taj Mahal: “The Cuckoo”

B.B. King: “Chains N’ Things”

Renee Costy: “Like A Magic Dream”

Jimmy Smith: “My Place In Space”

Donald Byrd & 125th St. NYC: “I Feel Like Loving You Today”

Hysear Don Walker: “Inner Face Rebirth”

Lightmen Plus One, The: “Wench”

Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express: “Future Pilot”

Bernard Ebbinghouse: “Mister Carefree”

Bobby Hutcherson: “Montara”

Steve Khan: “Candles”

Breath Of Life: “Keep In Touch”

Piero Piccioni & Shawn Robinson: “Right Or Wrong”

Arena: “Scrichell Cat”

Grover Washington Jr.: “Moonstreams”

Sonny Fortune: “Come In Out Of The Rain”

Kenji Omura & Kazumi Watanabe & Lee Ritenour: “I Feel Breeze”

Jeff Lorber Fusion Group: “Glisten”

Eddie Henderson: “Beyond Forever”

Stanley Turrentine: “Hope That We Can Be Together Soon”

Barry White: “Playing Your Game, Baby”

Champaign: “I’m On Fire”

Mass Production: “Slow Bump”

Whole Darn Family: “Seven Minutes Of Funk”

Instant Funk: “Never Let It Go Away”

Bonus Omega; crate-digging and sampling. First summer bonus broadcast.

[johnlibera]

Gig Alert!

Hi everybody! I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be playing this beautiful campus with the BHMA Jazzers on July 11th! Belvoir Terrace in Lenox, MA is a summer camp and although this performance isn’t open to the public, I wanted to keep you all up to date on my upcoming performances. 

[willothewips]

ok well I'm incompetent or tumblr is. tried doing this in the tags and messed it up so I'll just go for it bc literally losing sleep thinking about this post

I keep thinking about it and I like the idea that dash DOESNT know danny is half ghost/The Phantom (and since Danny is "retired" why would he find out unless told) just realized the Fentons were fighting real life ghosts / real life dangers

and maybe as he got older developed an ex-bully complex where he wants to make up for it / wants to help and protect people, esp kids

so when he overhears danny and jazz planning on going to Gotham, no hero business but wanting to help in small ways (like as a teacher), dash is just like "yeah, good idea. I'll go and teach scrawny teens how to defend themselves."

(plus growing up in amity they're all probably adrenaline junkies and need some kind of terror going on nearby to feel Normal)

and ok that addition about danny having scars visible under his t-shirt? that was Good.

and jason figuring out danny was an ex hero? that was also very good.

but I raise you: one of them asking danny all sorts of questions to figure out why he quit being a hero even after red huntresses warning like "was it too hard? getting those scars too painful? whatever whatever is that the reason you gave up the fight?"

and eldritch ghost king danny replies with a smile "give up? I didn't give up. I won."

Short DPXDC Prompts #468

Danny is a Chemistry teacher at Gotham Academy. His favorite student is Tim. He shocks the students by teaching and creating a Fear Antitoxin for the kids to learn as part of their curriculum.

[rxsurgcnt]

Testing testing

Testing testing

testing testing

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[boldlymagnificentperson]

Musica: la Petite Messe Solennelle di Rossini e A Little Jazz Mass di Chilcott

Sabato 16 novembre presso la Cripta della Basilica del Corpus Domini di Milano in via Pagano 8 i cori Glass Armonico e Coro Seduto terranno un concerto interpretando queste due famose composizioni. Il concerto è a favore della Mensa dei più deboli dalla Basilica del Corpus Domini. La Petite Messe Solennelle rientra in quelli che Rossini definì i suoi Peccati di Vecchiaia ed è riconosciuto come…

[orangetintedglasses]

Anonymous said: And you're not more freaked out/guilty about the fact that your BF is some kind of successful Plant hybrid person?

"Guilty? Yeah, of course... but freaked out? No. I mean, it was a bit shocking given, um... when it happened, but I've known about what the Eye was doing for a long time."

... he tried to get them to stop, too, in the early days. Begging, empty threats, no one wanted to listen to him when his brother's right hand had already convinced them that what they were doing was for the good of humanity... so, he'd started breaking into labs to try and sabotage equipment. He'd talked to the Plants there, asked them to help by slowing down anything they were producing. And it worked for a little while.

Until he got caught.

He still remembers how... happy Nai was, when he came to confirm his capture. That... was a long few months.

Vash blinks, and the distantly forlorn expression his face had taken on disappears. He shakes his head, "I'm more surprised they didn't tell him. But Wolfwood's right... it's already been done. Being upset about it won't change that; all we can do is make sure that it doesn't happen to anyone else."