The intersection and the in-between
I used to think that, if there’s anything that makes me happy, it’s supposed to be, well, fun. Isn’t it? Music is one of my happy makers. I listen, read, analyse, play songs, and arrange music – every single day, in one way or another, with an instrument or another. Then it’s not fun anymore. …
Though playing music for quite a long time, I still need to admit that the advanced music theory does drive me crazy! The calculations I was taught to make in music theory class don’t translate into a comfy approach. In the article below, I lay out a series of statements that people have made about …
How powerful the piano is!
Read on the first part of the conference review here: https://www.phuongvu.me/mad-asia-2015-conference-part-1/ 1. Day 2 Stage a) The Forest Host: Yeung Yang: Independent Curator + Writer (HK) Topic 1: Audible landscape Speaker: Yannick Dauby: Sound artist (Taiwan/France) By using pigeon whistle straightly recorded, Yannick aimed to develop imagination of the children in the aborigine Taiwan village. The …
I just had an opportunity to attend a 3 days-conference called MaD Asia 2015 at Kwai Tsing Theatre in Hong Kong. Coming back with tons of information, I took some time to reflect on the connections and the sharing from the forum, and jot down some notes before time slips through my fingers. If you’re …
I first played the keyboard since I was 4, and then quit class after two years. My intermittent music practice in primary school resumed for another two years, and I have been practicing on and off since then. But later on, when I ruminated over a same old sentence, I could feel that I hit …