If I can give one musical lesson over the Internet, it would be to play with silence.
Whether you write electronica, folk, pop, or metal, I strongly believe this to be a worthwhile practice.
At first, it seems a silly idea - how and why would one ever do such a thing?
Well, to answer those questions [...]
Archive for January 18th, 2008
Practicing Music: Golden Silence
Winter Winds
Parents' Guide
Pages
- About Kourosh
- Contact - Licensing, Commissions
- Meditation Music Samples
- Music Catalog
- Music Samples
- On Mind, Music, and Technology
Categories
Blogroll
- American Psychiatric Association
- Artist: Josina Burgess
- Artist: Tihomir Celanovic
- Boy on a Stick and Slither
- Bree Birke
- Cleversley
- DJ: Nexeus Fatale
- Games, Learning, and Society
- Institute for Psychoanalysis
- Method in Mind
- Musician: JeanChristophe Chevalier
- Musician: Juliana Gabriel
- Musician: Slim Warrior
- New Leaf Design
- Podcomplex Music Technology
- Second Life
- Sister Cities in SL
- Siterma
- The Flowfield Unity
- The SixtyOne
- The Wandering Endorphin
Writings
- A Lever to Move the Mind
- A Plight of Autistic Adolescents
- A Reluctance Towards Focus
- A Response to ‘The Lost Impact of Modern Music’
- An Interface of Health and Technology
- Aphex Twin and the Art of Simplicity
- Children’s Exposure to Technology
- Communication, Autism, and the Internet
- Compression and the Artist’s Message
- Improvisation as Self-Analysis
- Interface Dissolution
- Medication and its Meanings
- Meditation and Free Association
- Meditation, Fear, and Creativity
- Meditation, Mind, and Brain
- Mental Health Resources in Second Life
- Music In-World and In-Game
- Naming Pieces of Music
- On Being More Childish
- Our Branching Society
- Practicing Music - Silence is Golden
- Quantum Existence in Abstractia
- Re-Mission - Gaming Towards Health
- Revisiting the Importance of Play
- Sacred Earth Review
- Technology’s Effects on Music
- The Instruments
- Three Lessons I Learned Playing “Portal”
- Time as Told in Music
- Video Games, Violence, and Emotional Development
- What Is Improvisation, and Why Practice?
- What is Meditation, and Why Is it Useful?
- Why Write Music?
