This is my intro for LCL 2014. Click on a gear to learn more about me and how I see the creative learning spiral. Feel free to use these sprites in your own project.
Inspired by MIT's Learning Creative Learning, Mitchel Resnick's creative learning spiral, and Seymour Papert's "Gears of my Childhood" from "Mindstorms" Gears made using vector editor in Scratch. First song is an untitled project by my brother and I. "Untitled" by Robbie and James. Uses acoustic guitar, unplugged electric guitar, drums, and a favorite singing bowl of mine that is very special to me. This expresses my excitement about creativity. Alternate song is called "Wormhole Elevator Music" from an old solo ~noisecore project of mine called Unidentified Frequency Orchestra. Maths and space-inspired industrial/techno song. I included this song because it makes me think of gears. When I made this song, I was thinking a lot about a fictional realm called Mechanus from another favorite hobby of mine (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2.0: Planescape). Mechanus is a fictional fantasy realm sprawled across titan-sized gears with buildings and even entire cities perched on single cogs in uniform and orderly manner. The realm of Mechanus represents a sort of ultimate pan-dimensional source and endpoint for absolute order and neutral lawfulness, which is a contrast to similar alignment-absolute planes that deal with chaos and wild magic. When I made this song, I was thinking about what it might sound like in a magical elevator that acts as a magic portal between a "plane" of sheer chaos and a "plane" of absolute order. Quirky and weird, definitely. I agree. But I liked doing it and wanted to share it, hope you like it. It is a strange song that tries to celebrate method in madness and was made so that I could try to express my process of trying to find balances. Both are CC-BY 4.0
