Richard Hodges

email: r.hodges@ieee.org


Published and unpublished works

Universal Woman
Mask, paper and acrylic
© 1975
Cosmic Being
Digital image
© 1993

Accounts
And God Created Great Whales
Rhythm, Ego, and the Real Self a search in Time and in Africa
Photography
Photographs from a pilgrimage to Angkor
Published in Shambhala Sun magazine
The Way of a Tourist, a personal account of a mystical experience
Published in Material for Thought
Drum is The Ear of God on African music and spirituality
The Quick and the Dead: The Souls of Man in Vodou Thought
From the Mat to the Street: Judo and Life some reflections on the practice of Martial Arts
From Stories of My Native People
Traditional Creation Story
Who Song Is, the origin of magic and wisdom
Songs in the Sea
Bug-Smasher, a drummer's initiation
Essays on Science and Meaning
The Mind in the Machine: Absurdity and Meaning in Cognitive Science
Fruitful Chaos, a meditation on the meaning of unpredictability

Poetry
Artificial Light
Sailing
Now
Elements
What Does the Elephant
Be Still and Know
Monkey Mind
The Twisting Mind
The Twisting Mind (Hebrew translation)
The Plan
Frequent Flyer, a song about love
The Point
A Pilgrim's Tale (Around a campfire somewhere in the Milky Way)
Questions
Experience
Poem's Sound

Cartoon
Boehme Shave

My studies of African music, dance, and spirituality


African Sources List (books, recordings, media)
An article Drum is the Ear of God: Africa's Inner World of Music
The home page of CK Ladzekpo the great African musician, choreographer, and teacher
Don't miss CK's seminal Foundation Course in African Music
Ladzekpo African Music and Dance Productions.


New Concert
Music of Three Worlds
Saturday October 15, 2005
Featuring Hamza el Din, Jeffrey Werbock, and Charles Ketcham

Professionally, I do R&D in digital audio and electronic music synthesis
I am VP of Technology and a founder of Octiv Inc.
I also consult on digital audio processing and multimedia development and production.


Email: r.hodges@ieee.org

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