[LAU] Two new pieces

[jonetsu]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:02:46 -0400
jonetsu <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:52:55 -0400
> Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > U-he synths announce a newbie to the world :
> > 
> >      https://soundcloud.com/davephillips69/everly
> > 
> > An 8-tone scale gets a workout :
> > 
> >      https://soundcloud.com/davephillips69/ocotoco-for-bob
> 
> Have you chosen a *post-natal* bagua representation for the ocotoco
> piece on purpose ? :)

Since there's silence about this...  

The picture you have chosen to illustrate ocotoco on Soundcloud is a
post-natal bagua.  八卦 'bagua' means the 8 trigrams which are just
about the foundation of what stands for 'the bible' of Chinese culture,
the Yi Jing, the book (classic) of transformations. The other being the
Yin and the Yang.  From those 8 trigrams were derived the 64 hexagrams
which are the transformations themselves. The Chinese does not have
a book to tell them that moral comes from a God above.  There was a
rather short period of time in ancient history where there was a God
for the Chinese (Shang Di) but it was tossed aside for an observation
of nature and the processes involved.  As such, moral comes when one
complies with the universe, to put it simply.  It is generated from the
inside in a proper state, not coming from a God above.

In a pre-natal configuration, Qian and Kun (Heaven and Earth) are in the
center one facing the other, which means balance.  As in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bagua-name-earlier.svg

After being born this balance is compromised which results in Qian and
Kun being on the side, like the representation you have used.

There are two major kinds of efficiency.  One is based on operational
analysis, the other is based on exposing the coherence of internal
processes.  The latter was proved to be as efficient although very
foreign to our thoughts and beliefs which are primarily based on some
aspects of ancient Greece and reinforced through the centuries.
Traditional Chinese approach, the one that permeated the Chinese
culture, is based on the interaction of processes and was developed
totally in parallel to our ways of thinking, of seeing the world.

You will see a lot of Chinese for whom this means not much and
that's OK.  As an example, today people can say about someone who
is no good for nothing that he's 不三不四, he's 'not 3 not 4'.  And
when asked, many Chinese will not know the actual meaning.  It refers
to a representation of the hexagram in which lines 5 and 6 are heaven,
3 and 4 man, and 1 and 2 the earth.  So when someone is not even 3 and
4, it means he's not good for nothing.  Man being a living being
between heaven and earth.  This has influenced greatly Chinese culture.

Cheers.