Ultimate Selector

Select, experience, transform.

To be present, or not to be.

Every hour and day: discarding and focusing.

Consciousness. Open mind.

Courage, and gut feeling.

A constant process.

At Balse, we will share our selection process and what we learned.

We will visualize our transformation.

And for some, we hope, will be a valuable source of inspiration.

We are ultimate selectors.

Record

Welcome

start with

Flow

Re-writing, editing - existence

Been a few weeks since coming back from New York. Working on photo edits and all.

Also revisiting the meaning of Balse. The existence. Been re-writing the About page.

Here are some of the latest edits.

What to make of this?

How to live?

Our eternal questions.

No body can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself. Examine the reason that bids you to write; check whether it reaches its roots into the deepest region of your heart, admit to yourself whether you would die if it should be denied you to write. - Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

In a way, Balse is a research institute. In another, simply an experience of life, the NOW.

How I feel. My journey. Real human drama through photography and words.

Things are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable, occur in a place that no word has ever penetrated, and most unsayable of all are works of art, mysterious existences whose life endures alongside ours, which passes away. - Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Key areas of research are:

  • Art, Music, and History

  • Philosophy

  • Environment

From ancient to contemporary.

What we consume, how we spend time, shapes us. Consume less, consume consciously.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. The verdict on it lies in this nature of its origin: there is no other.

Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Follow the fun. Experience the world - LIFE.

With your needle, feel the groove - Focus.

Signal - seek with heart - Phono stage.

Find your message, expand with light - amplification.

Energy, vibration, form, harmony, emotion, being, breath in, and breathe out - Sound.

Now - DANCE.

Life.

success/failure

Feeling notes - life, worry of success/failure

Rilke had a sense of the land to which his gifts might lead him, but he was also anxious that he might never get there. He lived in fear of two false fates: either that he might end up as lost as the ragged poor who had surrounded him in Paris or else that he might succumb to the safe but numbing comforts of convention.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Intro, by Lewis Hyde 2011

Narrative

Head spinning

What is it you are searching for?

Meaning.

but there is no meaning, you know that right?

as she might say.

I understand that.

I am creating Story

: meaning


My grand narrative

 

Belini's Norma & our next goal

Back from NY. Catching up on research. Now on Belini’s Norma.

What is it that we can learn from Opera?

What are we seeking?

How can music and art influence our life?

How will it transform you?

These are the questions that is constantly on my mind.

I have no classical training in art or music, but I want to learn and be able to purely enjoy and be inspired. By studying important music pieces, we will learn history, philosophy, physiology, story telling, life, desperation, love, and hope. Drive to change, and better live.

Same for visual and contemporary art, but it may be more so with some of these major music pieces.

This is why Balse is increasingly focusing on Opera at this time.

What if we researched the 20 most important Operas and summarized them in our own ways, for us to be educated and truly studied the context and messages. I think it will have an impact on our lives.