electromagnetic pulse

open studio 11.

With Arvo Pärt I realize why I have a rule about practicing without music.

Music allows me to be indulgent. I dance without thinking nearly. I do compose to the music, but without continuity or the promise of performance --the creation occurs between me and the music and leaves an audience out in the cold. It remains too personal to be shared. Why does music release this intimacy?

I do not know. I am affected --as are we all-- very strongly by sound perhaps because I am unable to interact with it in a productive way that would then be able to provide me with the comfort of some control. No, instead all I can do is follow --which is why music or sound lightens the burden of many a task, mostly those requiring a consistency in mood and focus. On the other hand, this is why choreographing to music is painfully difficult - because I am bound by it, unable to think or generate ideas, riding its emotions like a raft.

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