Maestro Michi Renoir told Cat from the outset he wanted to play against the themes of war and violence to demonstrate his opposition. This was definitely not a Debussy kind of night with him.
Maestro Michi was playing powerfully and the passion he feels on these matters was clear through the power of the play, the richness of his chords, and sometimes unnerving timing.
There was only one answer for him at that time: lasers.
Cat and I dance in the foreground and I have skills like Fred Astaire in Second Life. Between us, you can see Maestro Michi in the distance. He is wearing a somewhat military outfit with a golden front on it.
Writing gushy things about Maestro Michi's sound is all very well but much better when you can hear it for yourself and here is a recording of last night's show on SoundCloud. The page will open in another window where you can start it playing then continue reading here if you like.
There is no intention to write some kind of travelogue for his show since you can hear it for yourself. His music is an excellent example of the need for risk in music. In starting out as he does, the mainstream would have been eating themselves trying to get out of there.
For the musico, the main thing is to let them go and keep your focus on the ones who stay. These are the ones who want the risk, who like it that we don't know what you will play next, or even what it will sound like. There's no need for a PhD thesis as you know the truth of the premise from your own listening. If a piece of music doesn't grab you as happening within your time limit then you chuck it and probably won't listen to it again, we all do that.
The risk comes for the musico in how long will you give the audience to get a line on what you are doing. For pop music, you probably have to do it in four bars but maybe the adventuring musico goes out four minutes.
You can always shoot off some lasers to baffle people for a while.
Note: Maestro Michi wasn't doing the lasers as that uncultured visual vandal was, um, me.
We're glad to see this push from inside Maestro Michi and, yes, we do like calling him that. He is classically-trained in music and has a wide range of styles in which he can play so he definitely has formidable skills. When he expresses himself like this he gives the fullness of the Maestro and we're hearing Michi giving everything he has.
Bis später, mein Freund! (Michi is in Vienna)
Maestro Michi was playing powerfully and the passion he feels on these matters was clear through the power of the play, the richness of his chords, and sometimes unnerving timing.
There was only one answer for him at that time: lasers.
Cat and I dance in the foreground and I have skills like Fred Astaire in Second Life. Between us, you can see Maestro Michi in the distance. He is wearing a somewhat military outfit with a golden front on it.
Writing gushy things about Maestro Michi's sound is all very well but much better when you can hear it for yourself and here is a recording of last night's show on SoundCloud. The page will open in another window where you can start it playing then continue reading here if you like.
There is no intention to write some kind of travelogue for his show since you can hear it for yourself. His music is an excellent example of the need for risk in music. In starting out as he does, the mainstream would have been eating themselves trying to get out of there.
For the musico, the main thing is to let them go and keep your focus on the ones who stay. These are the ones who want the risk, who like it that we don't know what you will play next, or even what it will sound like. There's no need for a PhD thesis as you know the truth of the premise from your own listening. If a piece of music doesn't grab you as happening within your time limit then you chuck it and probably won't listen to it again, we all do that.
The risk comes for the musico in how long will you give the audience to get a line on what you are doing. For pop music, you probably have to do it in four bars but maybe the adventuring musico goes out four minutes.
You can always shoot off some lasers to baffle people for a while.
Note: Maestro Michi wasn't doing the lasers as that uncultured visual vandal was, um, me.
We're glad to see this push from inside Maestro Michi and, yes, we do like calling him that. He is classically-trained in music and has a wide range of styles in which he can play so he definitely has formidable skills. When he expresses himself like this he gives the fullness of the Maestro and we're hearing Michi giving everything he has.
Bis später, mein Freund! (Michi is in Vienna)
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