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Relevance: 100% Posted on: 03.04.2014
[…]discovered by the Ferndale police several days after he died. James Semark was a poet, musician/composer, cosmic communicator, organizer and creative spirit born in Toledo, Ohio who moved to Detroit as a student at Wayne State University in 1959. His interests were diverse; from meditation and macrobiotics to technology, green-economics, jazz, urban renewal and […]
Relevance: 40.227985649707% Posted on: 26.05.2014
[…]the “I-process”. The stearine is melted by the heat of the flame and, by this melting, combines with the oxygen of the air; this combustion in turn, radiates the heat which allows the process to continue. …compare the heat of the flame with “consciousness of self”. As the flame is maintained by the combustion of stearine so is the “consciousness of self” in its turn by the extremely complex and rapid superimposition of perceptions and sensations, of emotions, thoughts and […]
Relevance: 39.988595117992% Posted on: 19.05.2014
[…]blight in evidence wherever the eye turns — one has no doubt that this must be the final outcome of the industrial complex, the idiotic CEOs who run it and their bread-games-and-circuses vision for the rest of society. In this sense, the collapse of American pseudo-civilization is no different from the collapse of others — there are many historical precedents… Meanwhile, Brother John makes his way over to Amsterdam (I call him “Ambassador of Konsciousness”). I see by the written material he’s posted here that Holland has all the evidences of the new world order that is springing up — […]
Relevance: 32.40872966169% Posted on: 10.05.2014
[…]in town, such as the antagonistic difference between the union and the musician, or the recording companies – commercial marketers of music, and the esthetic. Now, due to the existence of Berry Gordy and some others, the marketing resources are coming here. He started out very mundane and criticizeable, in the sense of the type of music that they marketed and developed for the lay public. But there’s no place where you can market avant-garde things, even to the development of mine, you see. Just like I took myself around to Berry Gordy and to some of the other studios, […]
Relevance: 31.781206200942% Posted on: 08.02.2016
James Semark (1940-2010) memorial held at Book Beat 5.04.11: James Semark Memorial Robert Thibodeau was a friend to James Semark and is the owner of the Mayflower […]
Relevance: 30.670644162801% Posted on: 06.11.2004
[…]revitalization is next to impossible. Yet, whenever creativity factors are allowed to grow, those communities become strong in themselves, regardless of which way the political or economic winds shift. The Detroit Artists Workshop was a community of people living together and empowering themselves from the ground up. What was unique about the Workshop was its intensely communal lifestyle. It was a 24 x 7 camp of musicians, poets, artists, and film-makers, with each individual experiencing accelerated growth in months, what would otherwise have taken years (or never at all). It was a fast-track to grass-roots community leadership. What about the […]
Relevance: 28.932558859427% Posted on: 15.01.2004
I believe this about Detroit: if everything would be taken away from the community – the cement, the steel, factories, automobiles, assembly lines, etc. – what would remain would be a form of supercharged cultural expression – music like what was made in the Artists Workshop four decades ago. For those who were not there when the sound was alive, I can best describe it in three aspects: – Dynamic – high-energy. The music blew you away every time you encountered it. – Unique. The music bore the stamp of “we invented it.” – Warmth and depth. A feeling, a […]
Relevance: 28.932558859427% Posted on: 10.05.2014
[…]the Artists Workshop Version Two becomes a forum for creativity, or if it expands to a whole community, complete with living-space, its presence in the creative landscape will be a health and growth factor in the revitalization of Detroit (and, not to say the least, the planet). James Semark, Detroit […]
Relevance: 28.305035203165% Posted on: 20.05.2014
from: Flip-outs for Children 1. Jack & Jill climbed the hill to fetch a pail of water & at the top they found each other. Jack said: “hey hey little girl you’ve got a white dress on & a white light in your eyes!” Jill said: “hey hey little boy you’ve got a white suit on & a white light in your eyes!” so they found each other & left the pail of water behind. they started climbing to heaven & left the pail of […]
Relevance: 28.305035203165% Posted on: 22.05.2014
[…]a type of early proto-rap form that he called the rhythm ballads. These late 50s and early 60s compositions were “investigative verse” works; tripped-out epic poems set to music that undertook the study and description of jazz legends John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and even a judgment day “jazz-poem in heaven” of Edmund Zwingy, an imaginary be-bop star. He began to put the ballads to syncopated sound beats around 1964, inspired by jazz drummer Danny Spencer practicing in a basement room next to his own, in the John Lodge Artist Workshop “Castle”. This recording was released on the “Detroit Artists Workshop […]