-What is the difference between human and animal? Not intelligence: animals and human beings are both intelligent, just differently. Think of the migrating birds, the dolphins and bats… It is the possibility to project in the future, imagination, creativity. To use the known elements (past) and develop them. -How are these imagination and creativity expressed? Through emotions of the present. We as human beings get connected to the world through nerves and react to those by emotions. -What is the reason for arts to be? What differentiate them from any other human activity, like sport? To express emotions. This is the big difference between humans and animals: emotions and their expression. -Music is waves, to become one with the universe. One shouldn't only tune with himself, nor the group, nor the audience, but with the air surrounding him, with the cosmos. Therefore it is universal. -Silence is emptiness. Music is trying to fill that silence. Like life emptiness. A musician always strives for silence, for giving music the power of a flame in the darkness, like emotions give the taste of life. But will it fulfill it, or only be noise? Harmony, rhythm, melody. -Therefore, music is meditation. A musician's life is like a priest's life. Music is not a goal, but a tool, to infinity. What is the difference between composed music and improvised music? 1)composed music is from another individual, while improvised music is from oneself. Improvised music therefore will vehiculate stronger and truer emotions. 2)composed music is from the past, while improvised music is from the present. Improvised music is the reaction of the whole environment: audience, other musicians… Improvised music is more true, more spontaneous than composed music. Some interpreters know to play compositions as if improvised (Glenn Gould for example). A real musician knows to listen. While playing, one should especially listen, to just become an element of the surrounding world, like a wave in the ocean. Therefore I disapprove the one by one studio recordings, the "clean" mixings that cut the frequencies and harmonics of the sound itself, the people who only know to listen to CD's out of a stereo equipment and can change the volume as wished, and never go to a live, acoustic concert, the musicians who need amplifiers instead of turning their volume down so that they can hear the other musicians of the band. In our society we accept noise but we don't know to listen anymore. Let's seek for silence and then listen to earth's music again! For a real musician, music is a second nature. Like for a child, walking, eating an apple or brushing his teeth became natural. If the musician didn't aim that goal yet, he should go back to study.
A next CD project I have, will be called Dancing Flames, based on a poem I wrote at once while in New Mexico in 1999, suddenly highly inspired. Dancing Flames Every soul is a flame Dancing in a life's frame Give it the purest air Gorged with all you care Essential, intrinsic Listen to earth's music Live, smile your happiness Share earth' treasures you bless Faith, universal love Be that messenger dove Travelling beyond hills Pursuing your ideals Reflecting the beauty Of nature's variety That path you daily trace It will dig and embrace Peaceful energy waves Vibrating in the space Enlightning all colors And expressing it's force Fulfilled with conviction It'll reach it's ambition Of changing utopias Into realities (This last phrase being a statement of Yehudi Menuhin)
The Apple Tree was a hymn to humanity: the Empire State being to the human like the tree is to God, with as roots NY's soil which inspired me to get its fruits, my compositions.
Search for Peace is an insight of myself and nature; Dancing Flames will be a hymn of nature and cosmos, being a project for about 18-24 instrumentists, singers, maybe choir, and dancers. But that's a long time run project... mainly because I need money for it, thus recognition and support!!!
