Vic, like many, you seem to be a victim of my lack of clarity. I take it that you don't understand the (albeit developing) concept of "emotional listening"...
Quoting myself:
Emotional listening would be along the lines of paying deep attention to the subjective experience of a performance or piece of music.
We all do this, to an extent. What I am trying to describe is this skill:
Listening openly, without judging or categorizing
Observing my response- emotions, physical sensations, memories
Continuing to observe my response, without analyzing or judging my response
Expressing that response through music, poetry, painting
(edit for clarity)
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thanks for the clarification. i like the idea of "emotional listening" but don't love the name. it seems to be not so exclusively emotional. more about awareness/ having a view of your own mental state.
ReplyDeletetrue, that. let's coin something.
ReplyDeletei recently ordered a book that was described by a friend at bennington as a great hands-on instrument building book...hippy utopia vibe. very simple. it also showed up on a dartmouth college syllabus as a "landmark" work. should be good. also, i recently played with a guy who had homemade monochords he built with cheap electric guitar pickups and metal stock onto plywood. it looked like almost exactly what i was going to have to come up with on my own but he was happy to have me photograph them and steal the ideas. the parts should be about 10-15 bucks per instrument. i am still interested in making an acoustic thing happen as well- will think on that more. this could be as simple as having an electric instrument (the plywood board monocord) that attaches to a separate resonator (soup pot/ the body of an acoustic guitar/ a suspended sheet of metal/ anything that will amplify vibrations). electric is very cool, and no big deal budget-wise. that's what i got.
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