The Vegetable Orchestra

For the final project, I have been struggling so much. I was going to use violin and teach and play together by using some strings. It was really hard to make string instruments, and I got stuck. So, I used straws to make some wind instruments. The problem is I can make some sounds but not pitch. I was disappointed and got stuck, again. Then, I used chopsticks and a pot using like a drum. However, I still needed more. I tried several things more, and I talked to my friend. She showed me this video and it was exactly what I want. So, I prepared some chopsticks, red bean maracas, drums, and other instruments, let's play freely.

Full of car sound

I found that we live in full of car sound. New York is mostly windy and we always walk with or against the wind. We cannot see the wind, but always feel and hear. In the city, sound of wind blends with car sound. I have not recognized that much, and I thought those sound I heard from video was wind sound when I first saw a movie. However, I realized “Oh! it is mostly car sound.” Even in the park when we tried to capture birds’ movement, I cannot hear their sounds but car sound. I tried to hear bicycle’s sound, dogs’ sound, and others’. All sounds are mixed but I only recognize car sound. Maybe car sound is too prominent and our nature’s sound is too weak to hear? Anyway, I was so happy when I heard quite vivid birds’ sound on the street.

Pachelbel Rant

pachelbel canon
He makes a joke, but it seems he has a quite good musical sense.
My cousin forwarded this yesterday and I could not stop laughing. However, otherwise, I realized that how the classical music has influenced these days' music. I mean that although it is really a simple cord process, D-A-B-F#-G-D-G-A, as you can see, you can find many songs and music which have this process. Maybe past and present musicians keep making variations?, maybe we have heard these patterns for years, or maybe people inevitably follow this sense because we have same or similar gene as several centuries ago? Hm.. Anyway let's find (or realize) more patterns like this.

Just let improvise your life

When I could not decide what I really want to do, one of my weaknesses comes out, and my aura of sprit fills with all the fear, anxiety, worries, etc. Whenever those feeling came, what I could just do was thinking too much instead of doing something. Too much thinking makes shrink myself and gets smaller and smaller, or captures me in the world of bubbling thoughts and flows next to next. My closest friends often say me "Pop the BUBBLE!!" However, I realized that what I need to do is doing something without fear rather than thinking with worries. Every moment, every second, or every breath is improving your life. Then, why I am feeling too hard to decide something. What I need to do is JUST DO. Let just happen. I know that improvising is hard but fun. Maybe you find perfect one to you. Maybe you get lost and need to start again for yourself. Maybe you discover special things from yourself. Maybe you can smile by yourself. Thinking, of course, is really crucial in our lives, but it does not mean something when thinking and doing are seperated. For me, doing does mean every physical action from big movements like running to tiny movements which you even do not recognized such as moving your eyes left to right when you read a book. But, if you just read book without consciousness, it will be just eye motions. So, I do not say 'Stop thinking,' but I will say "Move!" What we (at least me) need to do (or to practice) is letting go of me, letting go itself, and letting it happen.

Middel Eastern Fable

"A middel eastern potentate called a meeting of the wise men in his kingdom, and he said,'I want you to gather all the world's knowledge together in one place so that my sons can read it and learn.' The wise men went off, and after a year, they came back with twenty-five volumes of knowledge. The potentate looked at it and said,'No. It's too long. Make it shorter.' So the wise men went off for another year and they came back with one single volume. The potentate looked at it and said,'No. Still too long.' So the wise men went off for another year. When they came back, they gave the potentate a piece of paper with one single sentence on it. It was: 'This too shall pass.'"

-A.J.Jacobs,[The Know-It-All]

why I am in MUSIC?

Why I am in music? I have been doing music since I was very young when I can remember myself. To tell the truth, I do not know why I am IN music, but I am doing music because there are plenty of music around me such as different musical genres, music areas, music histories, musicians, musical aestheticians, musical instruments, and so on. Since I started music, I have never stopped doing music, and, sometimes, it makes me frustrated whenever I want to carve out another field and improve myself in another area. The result was that I always returned music and I thought “I am here again…” However, I cannot remember when I realized it, but, all the sudden, I thought there are tons of music behind me and above me. I have experienced music all the time, but still I have much more music which I have not been there.
Some people might want to stay and concentrate on their own instrument or their own area, but I cannot stop moving another place. The thing is that because my root starts from music, even though other environments come and try to graft other trees together, my own potential is based on music. How cannot experience those you feel curious and interested, not dangerous but comfortable.
For me, I am in music because I feel comfortable among them, although some are quite far to reach..