Robert Fripp's Diary

Tuesday 09 May 2006

Hotel Rock n Roll San

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Hotel Rock ‘n Roll, San Francisco.

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The sign reads

"Warning: Chemicals known to the State of California to cause Cancer or birth effects or other reproductive harm may be present in foods or beverages sold or served here."

An e-correspondent, a San Francisco-based professor-person of significant accreditation, has sent me this, in response to the word gentling that appears in this diary from time to time…

"Gentling" is a process involving trans-generational change. The term refers to the gentle handling of rats by their human caretakers. The gentle handling appears to cause behavior changes in rats that are passed on to other generations of rats. The phenomenon was discovered inadvertently by animal behaviorists doing experiments with rats. They observed:

When female rats are handled gently during their infancy and early life, they appear at maturity less emotional, more ready to leave their cages, and less fearful of strange stimuli than do other rats. In fact, the animal is able to respond more effectively when confronted with normal situations; in other words, its emotional response to novel but normal stimuli is not as intense as it is in rats raised in the usual manner. When such rats become mothers, the body weight and readiness to explore of their young are different from those of standard controlled groups. These effects appear to be mediated through both the prenatal mother-fetus and the postnatal mother-infant relationship. Not only are the young themselves of a different temperament as the result of the early experiences of their gentled mothers, but, when these young bear babies their patterns of mothering are also different from what they would have been normally.
Because the effect of the gentling that their mothers received becomes apparent in their grandchildren, it has been called "the grandmother effect." (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979)

For further reference in a psychological context:

http://www.nlpu.com/Articles/artic13.htm

http://www.nlpu.com/Patterns/patt13.htm

11.38 A break from e-frenzying. Mid-morning View I…

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13.01 E-frenzy continuing…

16.33 This posted on ET…

Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:05:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: John B. and Mary Pace <[email protected]>
Subject: Thanks and opinions of Fripp’s soundscapes
I was wondering what others were thinking of the soundscapes Fripp is
doing. I live near Nashville and though I didn’t catch the Fripp soundscape
myself, a friend did. He ultimately found it dull… I truly do wonder what others think of the soundscapes. My friend is young and I’m 52, so there could be differences of opinion. I’d like to know what others think.

My own view is that some forms of music cannot be appreciated by the young, without considerable commitment; such as music that is the considered & mature response of a player close to 60 reflecting on concerns that are not available to simple presentation. This is no reflection on the quality of listening in the young person, nor on their personal qualities, nor on how they address the proper concerns of a person at the beginning of their adult life.

And perhaps the Soundscapes were dull?

The Director Collects The Second Guitar For Soundcheck I…