EDITORIAL:: #WORLDPOETRYDAY :: AWARENESS, INTENTION, GRATITUDE
A question to our creative audience - poets and non poets alike: if we imagine ourselves in an epic, global room, whose hand would I see raise when asked if you were aware that today is World Poetry Day, an
REMAIN COMPOSED :: LAURELLO, LEREW, and WARREN :: FIELD NOTES from THE AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM FINALISTS
[textwrap_image align="left"]http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2012_NWF_SoPercussion_305x305.jpg[/textwrap_image] [textwrap_image align="left"]http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Unknown.jpeg[/textwrap_image] The Operating System is pleased to introduce you to our newest guest contributors - composers Michael Laurello, Todd Lerew, and Kristina Warren. Just recently, these extraordinarily talented folk were chosen from hundreds of applicants as finalists in the
COMMUNITY :: THE INSTITUTE OF NARRATIVE GROWTH : CAITS MEISSNER and MARK GONZALES
There is nothing more at the heart of The Operating System than a deep belief in the transformative power of creative practice -- of storytelling and narrative practice, in particular. In light of that, nothing could give me more pleasure
AWESOME CREATORS :: An Interview with KNOW HOW MOVIE's Director Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza
In today's special edition of the AWESOME CREATORS series, editor Lynne DeSilva-Johnson joins in conversation with Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza, director of "KNOW HOW" - the first ever feature film written and acted by foster care youth. Check out the
OPPORTUNITY: BARBARIC AWP SEATTLE 2014 FIELD NOTES
[h5] The OS Wants YOU! to write journalistic / field notes type accounts of your days in Seattle, as we are unable to attend. [/h5] These could take very different approaches: On the one hand, The OS is interested in running naturally
AWESOME CREATOR(S): Sometimes a Doubled Mind (Makes An Astral Temple For A Donkey Goddess): Eliza Swann in conversation with Laura Zuspan
[box] Editor's Note: I am excited to reenter the next phase of our wonderful Awesome Creators series, began on Exit Strata in 2012, with this expansive, exploratory conversation between Eliza Swann and Laura Zuspan, penned for us by Swann - who
CREATIVE PRACTICE AT THE CROSSROADS :: 'PERFORMANCE SCIENCE' AT SYMPHONY SPACE
[line] [articlequote] Crossroads is conceived of as a communications project. I had been presenting the science of climate change and sustainability to people of all flavors for five years
UNPACKING DAVID LANG's "THE SO-CALLED LAWS OF NATURE" with SO PERCUSSION's Adam Sliwinski
Adam Sliwinski (percussionist, teacher, conductor, and member of the groundbreaking ensemble So Percussion), brings us this insightful, deep analysis of composer David Lang's The So-Called Laws of Nature, which the group will perform this weekend at Zankel Hall. The evening, aptly titled
AWESOME CREATORS :: BAYO AKOMOLAFE and the ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS
This is Bayo Akomolafe's plenary talk at ISEC's Economics of Happiness conference held in Byron Bay, Australia in March 2013. Bayo is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Covenant University, Nigeria. For more information about the conference or
FIELD NOTES :: EVOLUTIONARY NEUROBIOLOGIST MARK CHANGIZI :: The Colossal Pile of Jibberish Behind Discovery
Mark Changizi is an evolutionary neurobiologist and director of human cognition at 2AI Labs. He is the author of The Brain from 25000 Feet, The Vision Revolution, and his newest book, Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed
