Richard Hodges

Published and unpublished works

New, In Progress

The Musical Scale and its Intervals
Why Is There Nothing, Rather Than Something
A Life Worth Examining A Review of A Time To Keep Silence by Patrick Lee Fermor

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
Now
Elements
What Does the Elephant
Be Still and Know
Monkey Mind
The Twisting Mind
The Twisting Mind (Hebrew translation)
Frequent Flyer, a song about love
The Plan
Sailing
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.

Professionally, I do R&D in digital audio and electronic music synthesis
I was VP of Technology and a founder of Octiv Inc., which was acquired
in 2003 by Plantronics Inc. where I now am Principal Scientist in DSP technologies.
I also consult on digital audio processing and multimedia development and production.

Here is my résumé.

Email: r.hodges@ieee.org

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