Matthew Shipp, pianist/composer

[Roshan]

So what's his ct anyway? NiFe? That is what we suggested. In NeFi? If so, aura? Something alpha-ish to all this "information" business. Why? His gravelly voice isn't alpha-ish. His child's face certainly is. His music definitely seems to "use" Se...

[Roshan]

And what is the ct of his dearly beloved Jean-Michel Basquiat? This is his story. This is some of his work. Here he and some more of his work are, this "cultural wonder", at 5'18" below with him not too depressed and/or messed up on drugs. I'm sorry he had a hard life and died of a drug overdose at age 27, but his work never floated my boat. I found it too childish. I was always at odds with my cohort in that way. He seems like an alpha cannibalized by the delta art world. Is he? And what is it Matt so reveres in him, and what, if anything, does it say about Matt's type?

[Roshan]

His gravelly voice isn't alpha-ish.

Well, Eric of Talking With Famous People is a gravelly alpha, I guess...

[Roshan]

First minute--his music is an algorithm of how his DNA sees the universe. Period. He is alpha. We are all information (all in both senses of the word). His music follows. TiNe with some very unusual stuff going on with Se PolR. "Evolutionary" between two quadras (alpha entering beta) but alpha nonetheless, and a Ti dominant one at that. He and Basquiat (FeSi) are duals.

[Vincent]

Well well, i was hoping we typed him right the first time but right from the first minutes of the first video there was the glaring issue that he seems overwhelmingly NT and unlikely to be NiTi, both because he doesn't seem to be a jumper and because he is specifically not jumping over Fe.

The more i was waiting for him to say something i would really relate to, the more he reminded me of one of the few TiNe colleagues i had at the beginning of my teaching carreer. Same way to sit. Same thing going on with his shoulders. Same way to use his long hands when he talks, same smile, same blinks....By the second half of the video it had become pretty uncanny.

At the end of it, he never really said anything i would actually too. Music to me is pretty much everything BUT a "language field". not even a "vibrational" one. Everytime he gets close-ish, he has to had something very Ne and/or very Si that kind of ruins it for me.

Anyway so, i absolutely agree with TiNe with something unusual going on with Se polr.
It seems to me that this has something to do with the piano itself. Something like accessing Se polr through Te 5th.
Not quite sure i would call it a TeNi aura though because he doesn't seem to sustain it when he doesn't play.

There is something going with the 6th too btw. Instead of the relatively common "doom and gloom" mode, he seems to have the "blessed" version of Ni 6th (something i'm pretty sure i mentioned in video chats with Anthony before).The platonic forms loves him so much he can be unapologetically grandiose with his messianic complex.

Quadra-wise, i don't know if i actually see him moving that much toward beta.
Sure there is his love for boxing and wrestling, but.. his reaction ot the rise of hip hop ("the barbarian invasions"), his difficulty to understand why metalheads loves his music, a lot of his tastes and a lot of his expert histiography of Jazz.. all of that seems very deltaized to me.