Music
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Sometimes we all get in the way of ourselves
http://youtu.be/GNc6qTwC7OY I’ve never experienced a relaxed performing experience. It’s always been a matter of hoping and praying that practice will have been enough and that my performance will be a quarter as fluent as it was in practice. This has really frustrated me. How is it fair that I become a completely different musician when I’m…
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The Performance Mind
Hope you’re enjoying my crazy little poems- I write them as an attempt to iron out the anxieties and thoughts in my head and hope they may provide a different perspective for other artists/ musicians. I’m aware how many people suffer from performance anxiety or stage fright and how often the remedies we are given…
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The Artists
Yet another poem to help the days flow by and keep myself motivated on arty things! The artists learnt to love before they could draw. The drawing came easy, loving was the chore Judged, destroyed, rejected, criticised It would seem the love had gone from inside The artists learnt to listen before they could…
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Should I practice or should I just be?
I am much more relaxed about my practice now a days. I have enough time to do everything and can wip out some constructive practice when needs be. But the rest of the time I’ve found to be a struggle. I understand that the time you spend mindlessly repeating a certain phrase can translate into…
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I’m worried that I now look boring when playing
Since addressing the impact my technique was having on my body, I discovered that much of the tension I was creating was from extreme movement of my body and head and neck. I discovered that although I thought my movements were freeing my music, they were clearly impacting on my body in a negative way.…
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I’ve just discovered that I have never listened
Until very, very recently I understood the art of listening to be a passive, almost reflex action. Something we don’t have to think about, something that occurs naturally just like looking or feeling. I didn’t expect to have to keep a specific awareness of the sounds and messages around me- I expected them to come…
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Why poetry is the music in words and my obsession with half rhyme
Am I embarrassing you? I’m in Paris with you. I don’t know why the sounds of half rhyme excite me so much. My favourite poems appear to be those that follow no set pattern and adopt a more imperfect tone and rhyme scheme. Perhaps it’s the predictability of perfect rhyme that loses my attention- I…
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Because I know I’ve changed and that’s what matters
In a musicians life, it’s surprisingly easy for your life to turn on its head and in 6 months. You are faced with a different person with changed aspirations and views on life. That is a short description of the past 6 months for me. From mid January I have sustained an ambiguous music-related, RSI…
Hattie Butterworth 