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We don't know what the future holds...and while that is scary, it is also an invitation. Times of crisis remind us all to look inward and ask ourselves what is truly important and to reassess our current assumptions. I am working harder than ever to face these sobering questions - a process that I have long trusted to fortify my own music with a palpable sense of vitality and life force that cannot quite be verbalized.
Musicians are taking a hard hit from this coronavirus...
I've lost ALL of my paid work from Mid March-all of May. That's a hell of a hit, but I am not alone in this!!
Musicians are taking a hard hit from this coronavirus...
I've lost ALL of my paid work from Mid March-all of May. That's a hell of a hit, but I am not alone in this!!
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The State of Live Music Following This Crisis is Uncertain...
This has always been true, frankly, so no news there. The advent of live streaming concerts happened long ago, and had already been increasing steadily over the past few years. I always met these live streams with resistance - primarily because the quality of sound and picture are so often glaringly sub-par, offering little resemblance to the rich phenomenon of being in the same room with the acoustic vibration of instruments, human bodies, and resonant spaces. That rich experience is the REASON I make music, and stripping the music of that richness defeats the purpose with which I resonate a saxophone...
I do recognize a conundrum:
Music is such an essential element of our human connection - if we are practicing Social Distancing in order to protect one another from this novel Coronavirus, then the experience of music here and now, feeling the vibration of an instrument in the same room with us, is temporarily suspended. Now what? Each musician will adapt to these trying times in their own ways, and I respect the choices folks will make in order to share their music with people.
My Approach for the Time Being:
Out of love, respect, and gratitude for the privilege of presenting Radically Acoustic live music for open ears and hearts in the 21st century, I won't be offering live-streamed concerts in empty rooms for folks over the internet. Not right now, anyway.
What I am doing, instead, is cultivating my own vital energy around the music that lives within me, preparing to LIFT THE BANDSTAND even higher when we are all allowed to gather publicly again...
What I'm Offering:
I have a backlog of live performance video and audio from the last year of presenting intimate concerts at An Die Musik. I will be sharing these over the coming weeks, and I hope that when you feel the need to TRULY EXPERIENCE the healing power of music, you'll take some time - UNINTERRUPTED - to put on some headphones and listen to this music as if you are in the audience, sitting beside the folks who were in the room at the time of the recordings.
My computer is too slow to render any of these videos, so I have a friend helping me out to get this stuff edited and uploaded. In the meantime, here is a link to tide you over!
This has always been true, frankly, so no news there. The advent of live streaming concerts happened long ago, and had already been increasing steadily over the past few years. I always met these live streams with resistance - primarily because the quality of sound and picture are so often glaringly sub-par, offering little resemblance to the rich phenomenon of being in the same room with the acoustic vibration of instruments, human bodies, and resonant spaces. That rich experience is the REASON I make music, and stripping the music of that richness defeats the purpose with which I resonate a saxophone...
I do recognize a conundrum:
Music is such an essential element of our human connection - if we are practicing Social Distancing in order to protect one another from this novel Coronavirus, then the experience of music here and now, feeling the vibration of an instrument in the same room with us, is temporarily suspended. Now what? Each musician will adapt to these trying times in their own ways, and I respect the choices folks will make in order to share their music with people.
My Approach for the Time Being:
Out of love, respect, and gratitude for the privilege of presenting Radically Acoustic live music for open ears and hearts in the 21st century, I won't be offering live-streamed concerts in empty rooms for folks over the internet. Not right now, anyway.
What I am doing, instead, is cultivating my own vital energy around the music that lives within me, preparing to LIFT THE BANDSTAND even higher when we are all allowed to gather publicly again...
What I'm Offering:
I have a backlog of live performance video and audio from the last year of presenting intimate concerts at An Die Musik. I will be sharing these over the coming weeks, and I hope that when you feel the need to TRULY EXPERIENCE the healing power of music, you'll take some time - UNINTERRUPTED - to put on some headphones and listen to this music as if you are in the audience, sitting beside the folks who were in the room at the time of the recordings.
My computer is too slow to render any of these videos, so I have a friend helping me out to get this stuff edited and uploaded. In the meantime, here is a link to tide you over!
