Bredonborough As of this morning

Posted by Robert Fripp
20 Apr 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009

Bredonborough.

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As of this morning, I am able to move beyond immediate proximity to the Chamber of Easement.

The sun shines. The e-flurry flurries. Online piracy of KC continues. I can – therefore I will! Is not an argument that convinces me of much more than arrogance, an abrogation of responsibility, an acknowledgement of theft.

This has recently gone up on the Guitar Craft site…

The Guitar Circle I
Guitar Craft 25th. Anniversary Completion Course

Special Project: The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists II

March 20–28th. 2010.
Rosario, Argentina

On Friday 26th. March, 2010 Guitar Craft ceases to exist.
This completion course, the second Special Project centering on The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists, and the first course specifically addressing work in the Guitar Circle, is available to those who have:

1.    an established morning sitting practice;
2.    attended at least two Guitar Craft courses;
3.    their application letter accepted.

The focus of the course, and one of the primary questions in the work of The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists, is this question:

how do we work with others, and specifically in the Guitar Circle?

II
When the practitioners, adherents & followers of any way, school or discipline become attached to the forms of their way, the way becomes identified with its practices & its working gets fixed. The intentional impulse that informed the founder/s will become blocked, to varying degrees. Shortly afterwards the manifestations of the way will go off course, diverting & re-directing the originating impulse that gave rise to that way. Heresy, schism, dissolution, reformation & counter-reformation will inevitably follow.

III
Guitar Craft is a way of developing a relationship with the guitar, with music, and with ourselves. Guitar Craft techniques & exercises provide the basis for an efficient guitar technique, leaving our attention more freely available – to what end? What is the impulse of the essential Guitar Craft, Guitar Craft’s unspoken & deeper aim? It is to awaken & activate Conscience.

Historically, Guitar Craft has provided specific contexts, practical situations & challenges to support this deeper aim. So, we might also say that Guitar Craft is a way of awakening Conscience by developing a relationship with the guitar, with music & with ourselves. Twenty-four years of experience in Guitar Craft has shown us that the primary form of working with each other, perhaps the most powerful, is in the Guitar Circle.

The Guitar Circle is a way of working with others.

Alternatively put, Guitar Craft is moving from addressing the needs of Beginners, to addressing the needs of those who have made a commitment to establish Guitar Craft principles in their daily lives; for example, by supporting the work of the more experienced, such as Circle Leaders, Mentors & Special Study Groups.
IV
The act of music or, more accurately, the act of musicking, is fundamentally a social act. So, how do we music with others? How do we music with other players & with the audience? How do we music with other players, the audience & even with Music itself, when it bends over & takes us into its confidence?

The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists is a wonderful opportunity for differing levels of experience to work together, and respond to varying levels of challenge.

The League Of Crafty Guitarists is a wonderful opportunity to manifest intentionality in the world, with its own primary aim of seeking excellence in performance.

V

In essence, Guitar Craft continues.

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11.52    On the Guestbook…

:: Posted by Mikhail664 on April 19, 2009What is Robert doing having cake with that savage looking guitarist. Robert seems like the guy the behemoth guitarist would have for dinner

That’s why we fed cake to Demon Bracewell the Behemoth beforehand.

20.08    Pre-packing for Estonia.

And part of addressing the past: organising the roll-top desk in the Study, the desk acquired from my Father’s auction room in 1968 for £32 that has been travelling with me ever since. And ever since it came here, I have been loading stuff into it – back from one tour, put stuff on & in it, and then off again. This has characterised so much of my life. Touring = mess. So, if mess is to becomes order, what does that imply?

Data organising continues.

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An evening practising ahead.

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