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Sometimes the music is about performance and about the moment. Sometimes the real treasure to be had with music is not for the future, but for the now.

An example would be how a rhythm section in a jazz band would feel the moment, and come together as a unit, through body language, and gestures, to deliver a lock and key powerful performance. The audience would remember such a feeling, and struggle for the right words to describe such an even to their friends, but the memory would linger with them, as magic, and and would be even more heavily embedded with the musicians that delivered the moment.

Forget the aspect of recording, and appreciate music as a live art, one that happens and then ends. Playing to play, and not striving to get that perfectly polished sound mastered to tape. Futhermore, appreciation of ideas, even if they aren't ready for radio right now, or our cup of tea.

So what I am getting at is reliant upon the principle of musical moments that happen by accident, that you don't even know are magic moments, until after they have been played, and are in the past. For example, imagine some of the great jazz musicians that have laid out one of a million routine improv solos, nothing different at the time, and gone as soon as the sound waves have ceased in their oscillation, but perhaps one here or there would have surprised the musician had they been able to listen to it again maybe even months or so down the road.

Accident, and Chance, and the moment all compose the idea that I am getting at: and while recording technology offers so much to the musical arts, it sometimes makes us forget about the time where live performance was not just the only form of musical expression, but it was the essence of the art itself. It was the magic, and the moment, and the sound that was heard only once, and perhaps that was what made it magical, or mundane, yet I am sure that the musician got goosebumps at least.

SO as I truly hold a passion for improvisation, and the ideas that were developed in the movement of music that is one of the United State's original styles of music, I would have to say that I have drifted more toward an approach to composition that is derivative of "make it up as you go along"........And I have spent hours and hours going through stacks of half scratched up cd's, in search of nothing specific and for most of the time realizing that most of these sonic sketches aren't worth another listen, or equalization, or remix, or perhaps a harmonic transcription, and really cringing as I listen, I do discover passages, motifs, melodies, and sometimes complete pieces of work, and every once in a while there is a diamond in the rough, and as rare as a needle in the haystack.

is such a small word, that really can't say enough about itself. The artistic and abstract implications that are involved are beyond explanation with a word; in general art is characteristically so as it encompasses human emotion which most certainly is so varied and individualized from being to being and moment to moment, that now single word could ever cover all the meanings and explanations.

We must accept that art is abstract, and ever changing, and without a scientific set of rules and laws that are predict, govern, and classify, the creation of music, in the context here. There is not right answer, and really there isn't a true definitive nature of the study of "Music Theory" as it is called, since the ear is ever evolving in respect to its anatomical design as well as the way that humans perceive sound waves and appreciate, or "Un" appreciate music.

I challenge everyone to get away from their selves, or at least open their minds up to other artists in a way that is focused on their first and initial opinions about other artist's songs. The reason I challenge musicians to think this way, is because they aren't hearing music purely for what it sounds like, but a true songwriter is hearing music on a higher and more appreciative level. What musician is not able to name other musicians and songwriters whom they are positively influenced by and look up to, yet the respect and appreciation for a diverse understanding and appreciation of music is filtered by our own individual and opinionated personal human preferences. We love to hear it black or white, good or bad, dissonant or consonant, even though the evolution of music is sure to eventually stray away away from the very music theories, and ideas of the present time.

Perhaps we can't listen ahead of the sound of our time, we aren't capable of hearing into the future. Or maybe we don't want to put for an effort to do so, as we have enough on our hands trying to transcribe, and explain the scores of material that are songwriters of the past have already written. Often so caught up in music theory, analysis, and reasoning of the work of our prior "masters of music", we refute the concept of music evolution and the unstoppable transformation that will become the music of the future. Most fit this category, but someone is bound to hear ahead, or progression in music style, and composition would never exist, and we would all still love to listen to Gregorian Chants, and the harmonic structured unison octaves would soothe our desire for complexity just fine. There wouldn't be a love for the minor ninth, the extensions 11, 13, 15+ in modern jazz theory and harmony, and experimentation with micro tones would be just far fetched musical fiction.

Really just treasure it all when it comes to listening, hearing, feeling and expression of sound, and music. What I am saying is all about not just hearing.........open your mind and your senses and you will taste it and feel it, and even smell the way that music sounds!

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