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roachboy · 02-20-2007, 04:04 PM

geez--i have no idea how to answer this question.

the piano is a huge abstract soundspace.
playing is sculpting time.
and it's my favorite drug.
but do the drug well, you have to practice.
practice is discipline and i go through phases with it.
right now, i am in a kind of in-between space, playing when i can but not having a routine set up yet.
the routine is important: i rely on it, i enjoy it: it gives me a space to shift out from underneath language and do other things in other ways. it is a space to play too many notes at altogether too high a speed and a space to play the smallest number of notes that you can stand while still implying the speed.
it is neither of those things.
it is a period in a box with a piano nearby.
it is a vacation from other people.
it is not that either.

this explains nothing.
i dont know what keeps me motivated.
i am not always.
i dont know how to answer the question.

02-20-2007, 04:04 PM	#10 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	geez--i have no idea how to answer this question. the piano is a huge abstract soundspace. playing is sculpting time. and it's my favorite drug. but do the drug well, you have to practice. practice is discipline and i go through phases with it. right now, i am in a kind of in-between space, playing when i can but not having a routine set up yet. the routine is important: i rely on it, i enjoy it: it gives me a space to shift out from underneath language and do other things in other ways. it is a space to play too many notes at altogether too high a speed and a space to play the smallest number of notes that you can stand while still implying the speed. it is neither of those things. it is a period in a box with a piano nearby. it is a vacation from other people. it is not that either. this explains nothing. i dont know what keeps me motivated. i am not always. i dont know how to answer the question. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 02-20-2007 at 04:06 PM..