The intersection and the in-between
Coming back from SXSW on Sunday, 19-Mar, I’m still pretty much on the ‘recovery mode’ after 12-16hrs daily out and about during 10 days of conferences, discussion panels, trade show, exhibition, exposition, music showcase, comedy, movie premiere, not to mention … parties! (you name it). As a first time participant in SXSW, I had a …
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Are you curators, writers, experts, advisors, investors, designers, bloggers, playlisters, producers, agents, technologists, entrepreneurs, artists, DJs, etc who actively work with digital media? How challenging is it running across an expert in your field, who actually can afford as little as 3 minutes to watch your videos and give you decent feedbacks, or, even give you …
So you’ve just started your music lesson with zeal. You’re all fresh to all those Do Re Mi stuffs, everything is new, exciting, thrilling to be unfolded. You happily set about learning notes, figuring out bowings and fingerings, and working at things until it sounded better. Your progress seemed quick and unstoppable!
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 …
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 …