Category Archives: Audio

[audio:http://idiotplayers.org/blog/audio/advice-to-the-drunk-at-heart.mp3|titles=advice to the drunk at heart] download (right-click and Save as…) The attached song is by the idiotplayers. The lyric is a version of a poem by Jallaluddin Rumi. It is a renegade poem, at a tangent to the very … Continue reading →

[audio:http://idiotplayers.org/blog/audio/the-future-is-searching-for-you.mp3|titles=the future is searching for you] download (right-click and Save as…) The attached audio is a recording of a piece by the idiotplayers. It is part of a collection of music that we look to shortly publish. The spoken word … Continue reading →

[audio:http://idiotplayers.org/blog/audio/ip-20100808-the-art-of-seekers-02.mp3|titles=A live recording from “The Art of Seekers” presentation.] download (right-click and Save as…) The audio segment in this post was recorded live on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at Centennial Hall (Burlington Central Public Library). The segment contains the Gurdjieff … Continue reading →

[audio:http://idiotplayers.org/blog/audio/IP-20100802-the-art-of-seekers-01.mp3|titles=A live recording from “The Art of Seekers” presentation.] download (right-click and Save as…) The audio segment in this post was recorded live on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at Centennial Hall (Burlington Central Public Library). The segment contains the Gurdjieff … Continue reading →

[audio:http://idiotplayers.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/IP-20100524-Beelzebub-Mysteries.mp3|titles=A reading from GI. Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub’s Tales, Chapter 30, The Mysteries] download (right-click and Save as…) In this selection, also from Chapter 30 of Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, Beelzebub recounts, of course in compounding detail, the methods of … Continue reading →

[audio:http://idiotplayers.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/IP-20100319-Beelzebub-Art.mp3] download (right-click and Save as…) In this excerpt from Chapter 30, Beelzebub traces several strands of what he calls contemporary European culture back to roots in the ancient Babylonian civilization and in particular to the school of the Adherents … Continue reading →

Here we present two selections from the rich musical repertoire that came out the creative work between George Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann. These pieces were performed and recorded by members of the idiotplayers troupe. We have experimented on many … Continue reading →

This post is an audio recording of an original piece of music that we call “taksim number 2”. The recording was made in a city apartment and so the sounds of street play a part here too. They brush/bristle up … Continue reading →

The taksim is an improvisational musical utterance. The word comes from the rich lexicon of Turkish music. Though we are not experts in the world of the ajna and makam that comprise this music, yet we are deeply moved and … Continue reading →