There will be a show tonight and the main thing is to get cocky enough about the piano bit to go with it for long enough to get a groove happening. There is no bass or guitar unless I feel like it so here's a bit that has to stand on its own with just the piano to hold it. We shall see. There is no telling where "Immer Einfach" will go and that's scary going into the set but that's what it has to be for what is, in my view, live.
The lyrics are a bitch as getting them onto the iPad has turned into the typical computer nuisance problem (i.e. takes hours and goes nowhere). If no answer arises, I'll write them out long-hand and that could be better anyway. I don't want any kind of computing anywhere near the music.
Cat and I have talked about whether recording music is even valid and, more and more, I think it's not. The fundamental nature of music is that it disappears the moment you release the note ... but ... that isn't the end as it goes to your world of mind and then it evolves in whichever way it will. The same thing will not happen if you play back a recording - something similar might but that specific reaction will not. Therefore, the recording is not accurate.
The inevitable reaction is that everyone records ... but you don't know that as you couldn't possibly have heard the ones who don't.
Musicians need to sell recordings to make a living and that's fair enough ... but it's still not accurate and it's solving a different problem, in any case.
The longer picture is to whether anything should ever have been recorded and I'm coming more solidly to the thinking that nothing should be left behind. Music is supposed to exist in the mind and it was never supposed to exist anywhere else, not on thumb drives, plastic spindles, or little magic devices no-one has seen yet.
The lyrics are a bitch as getting them onto the iPad has turned into the typical computer nuisance problem (i.e. takes hours and goes nowhere). If no answer arises, I'll write them out long-hand and that could be better anyway. I don't want any kind of computing anywhere near the music.
Cat and I have talked about whether recording music is even valid and, more and more, I think it's not. The fundamental nature of music is that it disappears the moment you release the note ... but ... that isn't the end as it goes to your world of mind and then it evolves in whichever way it will. The same thing will not happen if you play back a recording - something similar might but that specific reaction will not. Therefore, the recording is not accurate.
The inevitable reaction is that everyone records ... but you don't know that as you couldn't possibly have heard the ones who don't.
Musicians need to sell recordings to make a living and that's fair enough ... but it's still not accurate and it's solving a different problem, in any case.
The longer picture is to whether anything should ever have been recorded and I'm coming more solidly to the thinking that nothing should be left behind. Music is supposed to exist in the mind and it was never supposed to exist anywhere else, not on thumb drives, plastic spindles, or little magic devices no-one has seen yet.
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