[01] intro

2018 February 11, 18:26

Hi to my first post which I’m actually typing into Pages of Mac because I don’t have a website yet. I’m starting late as well (but I believe it’s not too late!) because of the lazy person I am (not that I’m proud of it, I’m just being honest with how I’ve been about some things, but not that the project is bad idea either! I think it’s founded on solid objectives. It’s a creative way to learn and keep track of them, and regularity is vital in learning, of course. I’m just lazy on s o m e days that’s all…)

What I plan to do is share what I learn in class and in our book “___” (gad idk the title so ill skip it for now).  I already expect that most often, my entries will be from reading the book, because in class my mind tends to wander elsewhere and then I can’t connect the information raining down in the many corners of the classroom (this is an opportunity to add that our classroom is pretty cool-looking because it’s actually a music hall ^ - ^ and I think the ceiling lights are really cute. They’re round and emit yellowish orange-y light and I want to touch them because I don’t know what material they’re made of. I can’t even tell if the material is smooth or rough and it looks recycled or maybe the whole thing is just old. Those curved wooden panels on the wall are cute too. Don’t know what they’re for though. I use cute a lot to define things that make me light up/go oooh waht are those). I think it’s pretty clear this is not going to be purely academic. I also plan to add my thoughts, be it about the lessons or some stuff that’s going around (like I’m in Moonleaf Maginhawa right now just so I can access the internet. And my crush is behind me oh noo gotta look scholarly here). I think this way it will help me with writing. 

To whoever stumbles upon thy website, hi. I mostly study/perform/do music stuff. That said, I wasn’t born into a musical or, in general, artistic family. And sadly my family still (me going two years in my program) does not understand where the fuck I’m gonna go in life with music. It was (past tense) hard to want to be a better musician/artist. I only got to encounter “music literature” when I got in the college. So before I got admitted, I was the kind of person who calls renaissance, baroque, classical, contemporary music, “classical”. I was a complete philistine! And I still fervently believe I'm very lacking of the knowledge expected from someone of the musicology department (though I'm not taking musicology and I don't see myself taking it atm). Admittedly it's hard to be interested in music literature despite it being new to me. I think it's because I'm not attached or I feel no connection to it simply because I didn't grow up alongside it. I'm dealing with some interesting information but I never grew up with the curiosity or wonder to indulge myself in it now.

Because I’m new to all this information (and there’s a looot), I want to go about my entries in ways that I believe is understandable for future me and to any person, musician or not (i can try). And going by casually/conversational because I can’t see it being another way. I’m really just gonna write like I’m talking to myself, just like with a diary. 

Off to the next entry. I’ll be talking about the stuffs (sorry my word choices can be so informal hehe.) on chapter 18, the first chapter of Part 4 in the book “__”. This book is very informative btw. It has a little bit about geography, politics, history, war, sciences, philosophies, e t c , and connects those to music. Personally I believe music (and anything else) is shaped by geography. Geography shaping cultures. I could talk about geography and my fondness of it in a different time and place though.