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It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.Coltrane and, I think, Charles Mingus and asked him theory questions.

Molly Gordon is playing Alice.And Colton Ryan is playing the White Rabbit.And we also have Jason Hart, our musical director.

So that's the song.So Colton and Molly, will you join us?Great.

But pretty much all of us have a tiny slice of unspeakable evil sitting in our pocket right now-- the minerals that go into these,particularly coltan mined in the DRC is an engine of human misery.Why do you think the industry collectively can't get on top of that?

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.And Coltrane is basically looking at intervalic relationships between very interesting scales and how they fit into this geometry.

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.So Coltrane tired to-- I believe he read everything he could get his hands on about Einstein-- he was trying to find, OK, you know these different scalar

Mhm. Some of your lyrics from the album are in the book "USA--" Yeah.--like "Coltan as Cotton." I was working on it at same time, yeah.So tell us about "MartyrLoserKing." What does that mean?

And then we get five minutes off and then you're right back at it again.The Colts are on their way.

Yeah. Well, it is interesting.There was a Colt-- huge Colt weapons manufacturing companies-- huge industries in Hartford, and they

So empathy is part of gaining power.There is the Dodge Colt from the '80s.

I have a personal gift for you, also, which I would like to present to you, and you can accept it, or I will keep it for you until you can take it."That was the Colt .45 that John mentioned.So we have a letter from Elvis and a letter about Elvis.

And there's a huge amount of work-- really good work-- on the recognition of facial expressions of emotion done by people like Paul Ekman,and Andy Colton and Andy Young in the UK.And Paul Ekman had established that there were apparently a set of facial expressions of emotion that were recognized cross-culturally.

in particular, the Catholic church was going to label notes of the devil, and things not to play.When they asked John Coltrane, does race have anything?

And I realize, this is the record that makes me want to take my head out of the toilet.And it's called "Coltrane Plays the Blues." It's a record by John Coltrane, the jazz saxophonist.It's not like one of his most famous records.

So those are some of the changes, I think.So in your Coltrane example, you talked about Coltrane walking away from the mic and it changes the sound.Do you ever go into a song and listen to a song or music piece from the standpoint of the recording engineering?

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.So when Coltrane told David Amram, the great composer, that like Einstein, I am seeking for something simple that brings music together from natural sources,

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.Could you explain that Coltrane diagram since you didn't have time to get-- OK, sure.

So there's also people like Tarkovsky or Chris Marker, you know, that-- I think that in the last poem, whichis called "Coltan as Cotton," I talk about the taste and the cultural signifiers of taste, you know,and how we-- we have our references here.

whether it's Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel.It's John Coltrane creating his work that he saw as this divine prayer, playedthrough his saxophone.

If you know Monk's syncopation in clusters.If you know Coltrane, you know the crazy, fast licks.And this is somewhere in between.

And then we get five minutes off and then you're right back at it again.We were at a Colts game.

So I say to my man, who so one of my good friends worked for me for years and now has his own little agency.A guy named Coltrane Curtis, not so little.I say train-- take a picture with little George and big George.

And then I thought, OK, well what led to this?I know this one record by John Coltrane.What created this record?

There's a long history of mining these regions and exploitation juxtaposed with Western comfort, right?And the irony is that coltan is something that distributes power through small circuitry boards, right.Distributes power-- so I'm thinking about the distribution of power-- right-- and the distribution of wealth, and all these things, and the blocks along the way.

featuring his photos and some writings from the cast and his time.And then joining Matt today is Ellar Coltrane, so also an Austinite and the star of the movie "Boyhood." We're so lucky to have them both as their crazy scheduleson the awards circuit have kept them pretty busy over the past few weeks, so we're excited they could stop here with us today.

didn’t get it and then the Colts came down and scored and won the game.

My husband, George Howe Colt, also writes nonfiction.

man: OK. Frank: Colt's players emerging from the tunnel.

So I think it's like a testament to just keep on keeping on, and developing, and developing until you got it exactly right.Right. And Colton, this is for you, as the new person of the group of these five-- You outed me.What was it like coming to "Alice by Heart" at MCC, and what it's like to work on a brand new musical?

So my girlfriend has zero interest in John Coltrane solos.

And so conflict tracing in that sort of environment became somewhat easier than with coltan.I mean, coltan, it's estimated that the Congo contains between 60% to 80% of the world's coltan deposits.It is readily smuggled across Congo's borders and ends up in international markets.

And one of the main subjects of my talk today will be this diagram.This is a hand-drawn diagram given-- gifted-- from John Coltrane to his friend and mental partner-- they sort of theorized a lot together, Dr. Yusef Lateef.And he gave this to Yusef Lateef as a birthday present.

And by assigning that velocity to a note, the ratios of those velocities, he was able to come up with these scales.And it's kind of interesting that John Coltrane had an album called "Interstellar Space." And he has a song called "Mars."If you actually study the transcription of "Mars," you find that it has inklings of this particular scale in it.

There's no proof in there.But it's kind of interesting that John Coltrane wrote this album called "Interstellar Space." So then from that, he was able to come upwith his three laws of planetary motion, the first set of equations, really, that we started to assign to astrophysical phenomenon.

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.under these transformations. Coltrane tried to do the same thing in this diagram.

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.So this diagram I claim was some sort of thing that Coltrane was trying to systematize relationship

And I chose this region, because essentially, this region, the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, is one of the spots where you find the largest collectionof cobalt, coltan, you know.And what I find interesting about our reliance on these resources, the same way we have relied on rubber,

Her musical offerings are on par with John Coltrane, and Parker, and should be considered as such.

He's actually here, John Colton.

Andy came from New Jersey somewhere, Colts Neck or White Plains or something like that.

And Sergio Brown, who was the Colts, put me on the map with the "keeping the alligators "down thing.

That could be chapter number 21.It feels like we kind of just watched you construct review for "Coltrane Plays the Blues" up here on stage.As you were thinking of writing a piece of criticism or a review, is that sort of the process you go through

I mean, you can take a diamond and look at it under a microscope and know exactly where it came from.And so conflict tracing in that sort of environment became somewhat easier than with coltan.I mean, coltan, it's estimated that the Congo contains between 60% to 80% of the world's coltan deposits.

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.But the important thing there was the idea of using these harmonic cycles that Coltrane employed.

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.And so it's no mistake why "A Love Supreme," one of Coltrane's greatest works, is rooted in this pentatonic scale.

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.All right. So there's the Coltrane diagram again.

It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy.I suspect that the answer to that puzzle reveals I think what Coltrane didn't reveal to anybody else.

This first composition is a dedication to the late great John William Coltrane.

And so, my mother was obsessed with Coltrane, and Miles Davis, and this amazing jazz, which was very traumatic for me to listen to.