“If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole.”
- Stephen Nachmanovitch, from Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
Posts Tagged "Improvisation"
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Music is a powerful method of communication. With any type of speech, a person may feel the urge to censor the self. And yet, it is this musical suppression that forms a chasm between sounds heard near the soul and those felt distant.
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Now, there is even brain imaging research to back up the [...] -
These music pieces are manifestations of a meditative process. In a depth of focus, the movements evolve their own lives. Individual recordings are images of growing gardens.
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An example can be seen in the piece Valve which can be found both in Fidelio (2003) and in the latest album Live at Bliss Gardens (2007). [...] -
Time is a funny thing. How well do we really understand its nature when all we know is how we perceive it? Theories have been bandied about ranging from existence to non-existence in the forms of a clock or an illusion, respectively.
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When playing music, I feel that there is something malleable about time. [...] -
Feeling a lack of control over one’s own fate is arguably a large characteristic found in different types of mental anguish and suffering. Being able to understand the self is a method of gaining some of that control.
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Different types of therapies have their own methods for attempting to achieve this goal. In [...]
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