The Instrument

"A vivid picture of the world of the theater seen from the inside."--Amazon.com

In 1994, jazz musician and composer Kenny Werner released his landmark book, Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, which freed artists around the world to reclaim their love for music and find the power within their art. His seminal book led to his work as the artistic director of the Effortless Mastery Institute at the Berklee College of Music, a leading observatory for training the world's greatest musicians.Now Werner has written the perfect companion-Becoming the Instrument-where he shares profound insights and uplifting anecdotes based on his 40 years of experience to teach musicians, artists, athletes or even business people how to lift their performance to its highest level and showing us how to be spontaneous, fearless, joyful and disciplined in our work and in our life. In Becoming the Instrument, Werner teaches us that mastery is not perfection, or even virtuosity. It is the gift of self-love, forgiving your own mistakes, and not allowing the world to diminish your own divine gifts. And you don't have to be a musician to have the experience.

"Dao Strom's Instrument continues the author's virtuosic exploration of identity, selfhood and refusal-of stasis, of forgetting, of falsity. The book furthers creative and historical material Strom first explored in her books You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else and We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People while simultaneously exploring new directions, modes and fragments... ."--Publisher's website (viewed March 23, 2021).

"The effects of pure red and low color temperature white flood lighting upon completely dark adapted visual thresholds have been determined. The red light was adjusted to brightness levels which pilots have been found to use as the minimal, normal, and maximal levels for night flying. For each brightness level of the red light, a brightness was found for the low color temperature white light at which aircraft instruments were equally legible under the two lighting systems. Both a simulated instrument panel and a pure white panel were used as viewing panels. Six subjects were tested under each lighting condition. A higher brightness proved necessary with the low color temperature white light than with the pure red light in order to attain equal legibility of instruments. Both lighting systems at all brightness levels caused small increases in visual thresholds above the completely dark adapted state. When the simulated instrument panel was illuminated at the normal brightness level, thresholds after viewing low color temperature white light were 0.15 log micro-microlamberts above thresholds after viewing pure red light. This value defines the approximate sacrifice in dark adaptation which would be made if white lights, operated at low voltage, were substituted for red lights in flood lighting aircraft instruments. The white lighting would also be more visible to dark adapted enemy observers. However, the white lighting system would make colors in the cockpit appear more natural, which would facilitate such tasks as map reading. When operated at normal voltage, the white lighting system could also provide high intensity illumination for special purposes such as thunderstorm flying, very high altitude daytime flight, and simulated instrument flying with the amber hood and blue goggles."--Abstract.

18 essays on the subject. With contributions by Mallerme, Stephen Lansing, David Guss, Karl Young, Dennis Tedlock, Becky Cohen, Jed Rasula, Alison Knowles, George Quasha, Tina Oldknow, Dick Higgins, Edmond Jabes, Paul Eluard, Gershom Scholem, and Herbert Blau.