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I just read a few lines from Canetti‘s autobiography that did catch my attention because they have somehow to do with blogging as a way to share knowledge:

… zum Wissen gehört, dass es sich zeigen will und sich mit einer blossen verborgenen Existenz nicht begnügt …

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Das Wissen, das in Erscheinung tritt, indem es sich anderen mitteilt, ist das gute Wissen, wohl sucht es Beachtung, aber es wendet sich gegen niemanden.

The quotes as I understand them, say that whenever you have knowledge on something, the best you can do is to share it with someone. Keeping it for yourself is bad knowledge. Sharing is asking for attention, but is not aiming against anyone.

That looks like some kind of motto for my blog: the good knowledge.

Because I recently bought some CDs with music of Ástor Piazzolla and John Tavener, I tried to find some background information.

The very first biography of Piazzolla (1921-1992) has been published by Oxford University Press in 2000. (update March 2011: strangely enough this seems not to be available anymore from the OUP websites).

There seems to be a URL www.piazolla.org but that is not working. (update March 2011: it should be www.piazzolla.org – note the double zz…)

A biography and further links on Tavener (born 1944) I did find here on the Schirmer website.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I find interesting in that he combines two of my main interests: aircraft and literature. I came across some photographs taken a few days before he died, by John Phillips. Google gives these links. One of them points out the book by Phillips “Adieu, Saint-Exupéry! Unsterblicher kleiner Prinz” in which he recalls those last days.

I just found out about this link (in Dutch) on inventio.nl with info on RealPlayer recording and conversions. I’m just curious how to save streaming media into a common file. Maye useful when I need it.

A long time fan of conductor John Eliot Gardiner, I wondered if there is some actual news on projects he is working on. A Google result leads, via via, to an interesting New York Times article from August 2000 with information on the Bach Pilgrimage Project. Of course that was ‘old’ news, but the article gives a good deal of information on the person behind.

At the Salzburger Festspiele, July and August 2001, he has conducted the Czech Philhamonic Orchestra in the opera Jenufa (by Janácek), so no doubt that will be a new CD to buy someday.

It is strange that Google doesn’t lead to a biography page, e.g. on the Monteverdi Choir site. I know there exist some other biographies, but I cannot find them now BTW, it seems that Google misses text accompanied with ‘s. So maybe I will send them a mail on this.

This first entry via Blogger should be a ‘hello’ to readers. It follows a year long struggle with a half baked version done by myself. Biggest problem in this was adding actual content in a fast way. How it looked like around June 2001 can still be viewed via the Internet Archive.

First thing to do is to encorporate my old stuff into this new environment, and studying all possibilities to change/adapt the layout to adapt to my own wishes.

Two months since last posting. Reason, in the mean time I have experimented a lot with my newly acquired film scanner. I’m not yet able to produce the ‘perfect’ image. Some tries are included in last added (historical) air logs. Also added some old logs. My recent trip to Paris, four days ago, has also been included in the movements now.

Most interesting news to me was the existance of research on papyri from Herculaneum (Pompeii) by Richard Janko of the University College London. It appears that thanks to new digital scanning technics (archeological MSI) it is possible to read texts that survived the eruption of the Vesuvius. See the Philodemus Project. The Inaugural Lecture of Janko (October 1996) emphasizes the importance of knowledge of the Ancients, especially the Greeks:

The classical Greeks had no sacred text, no Bible or Koran, whose meaning had to be fought over in struggles for ideological or religious dominance. This is the most important fact about them; together with their political fragmentation into independent city-states, separated from each other by inlets, seas and mountains, this lack created that atmosphere of open debate about ideas – political, religious and philosophical – which led after long delays and detours to the rise of modern civilization.

Somehow this reminds me of the Internet, with its fragmentation and debates.

Again several reports have been added to the Airblog. Since last posting I ‘ve been busy with the dia/negative scanner I ‘ve bought, PrimeFilm 1800 . It takes up a lot of time to get it to know. I will use it to add pictures to my reports.