Piano Forum
Non Piano Board => Anything but piano => Topic started by: m1469 on September 24, 2007, 03:17:23 PM
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As is somewhat usual for me, I am pondering some topics that feel quite hefty to me and there is also some "transitioning" going on for me. I was going about my morning, feeling a little in angst over some things and so on, but then another "voice" stepped in and asked myself a question :
"Maybe this is not fun and comfortable, but don't you already like it better "here" than how you felt on the other side of it ?"
And, I will admit, my answer was a definate "yes." There are elements of being on the "other side" of wherever I am at for the moment, that were just becoming very limiting for me. I suppose this is what has propelled me forward; my desire to experience more freedom. And, already, there are elements of what I am doing now that feel better, though the walk is a bit dark and scary *seeming.* Regardless of the "things" that would like to keep me back, I feel a sense of promise in where I am going.
I know that what I am saying sounds vague, perhaps, but I felt that it was more appropriate for me to share some manner of where this question is coming from, rather than just ask the question. I don't think that details matter all that much, at this point.
Anyway, I would be interested to find out your answers to the topic question, as much as you wish to reveal :).
Cheers !
m1469
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Challenging and interesting :)
I often hear people say that there is a difference between "freedom from something" and "freedom to something". At the time I am searching more for the freedom "To". Free to do what I really want. I quote from my post in the motto thread:
To do something because I have no other possibility is a fact in my life, but not enough reason for doing it. To do something against any opinions of many people around me is a fact in my life but not enough reason for doing it. To do something to survive is a fact in my life but not reason enough for doing it. But to do something because I *want*: that is enough reason for doing it.
"Want" in this context means to me not only a wish, not only a desire, but a free creative impulse. I can't be more specific because I am not ready to share some of the most intimate artistic experiences I have, with the public.
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well tuned pianos can be artistically freeing.
finding out after the fact - that you just did something either really stupid or really daring. not having time to get all panicky and choke on your breathing - but to just zone in and do something really well. i suppose the most artistic thing to do is practice.
hearing jascha haifetz.
taking out a student loan. ? ? ?
hearing someone bash everything you thought was proper and attempting to build from the ground floor up some semblance of a structure that has hurricane ties and yet moves on it's foundation? i suppose, to be very honest, i would feel more musical if i could distinguish chords better and automatically know what they are (in what inversion) and never be lost in a piece of music.
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What familiarity with the piano can do, and which I wish to improve:
Looking away from the piano, particularly up a bit.
Closing my eyes.
When I do these things, it frees the music and me up.
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What are some of your most artistically freeing experiences?
End of the concert, last encore is over, in the green room accepting congratulations--in fact, THAT would be a perfect time just to start the concert.
Too bad it is over...
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What are some of your most artistically freeing experiences ?
Sit down, delete all the fortes, pianos, crescendos, accents, trills, everything, have a naked bunch of notes, change half of what is written, add things to the other part, learn to play it.
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This is so incredibly fun. Especially with a bach fugue, just delete a voice and add another or keep the voices and add another. Music is *outside* of all patterns and rules. I don't need to have an artistical or musical justification for it, i just do with the music whatever i want, and it automatically has a sense in itself. Whether the result sounds good or bad is another thing, and is subjective, but i improve.
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Improvisation is fun. I used to zone out improvising on guitar. Without realizing it, slowly spinning around in circles until the cord is wrapped around my feet... I ought to do more of that on the piano.
Sit down, delete all the fortes, pianos, crescendos, accents, trills, everything, have a naked bunch of notes, change half of what is written, add things to the other part, learn to play it.
:D
This is so incredibly fun. Especially with a bach fugue, just delete a voice and add another or keep the voices and add another. Music is *outside* of all patterns and rules. I don't need to have an artistical or musical justification for it, i just do with the music whatever i want, and it automatically has a sense in itself. Whether the result sounds good or bad is another thing, and is subjective, but i improve.
I've read that's basically the method Bach himself learned to compose by. Also that Mozarts first piano concerti were based off of other peoples music.