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I love the direction you took this. I happen to love experimental music and agree that it is a wonderful and fruitful avenue for musical exploration. I'm fascin

I love the direction you took this. I happen to love experimental music and agree that it is a wonderful and fruitful avenue for musical exploration. I'm fascinated by your process of disassociating your emotional responses from what you heard. I happened to go to an experimental concert just last week, involving organs (since you mentioned them). You might enjoy it. It's available for streaming here: https://roulette.org/event/cleek-schrey-and-weston-olencki-o https://roulette.org/event/cleek-schrey-and-weston-olencki-o...

crawfordcomeaux 5y ago
Thanks for this! Gonna watch it right now if the 3yo wants to. Update: they do. Here's the instructions for doing the nonjudgment practice that led to all these realizations. I highly recommend them. The effects are quite literally lifechanging, unlocking/unblocking joys I didn't even know were possible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29764591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29764591
crawfordcomeaux 5y ago
We have a pump organ in our living room. This music is incredibly affirming for me because it sounds very much like music I first started playing when I started playing again AND I started on the pump organ (which at least one of the musicians at the start of the music is playing on). I've had to really staunchly stand up for myself and my music to other musicians and to my past notions of music, and have definitely gotten defensive around playing music like this. No more. I'll just send people to this. And I'm definitely going to focus on playing more like this again. Thanks again for bringing this into our lives! <3
- scrozier 5y ago
  There were about 250 people in the audience that night, which I thought was amazing for a program of experimental music involving pump organs, a banjo, and a Korean mouth-blown reed instrument.

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I love the direction you took this. I happen to love experimental music and agree that it is a wonderful and fruitful avenue for musical exploration. I'm fascin

by scrozier 5y ago

crawfordcomeaux 5y ago
Thanks for this! Gonna watch it right now if the 3yo wants to. Update: they do. Here's the instructions for doing the nonjudgment practice that led to all these realizations. I highly recommend them. The effects are quite literally lifechanging, unlocking/unblocking joys I didn't even know were possible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29764591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29764591
crawfordcomeaux 5y ago
We have a pump organ in our living room. This music is incredibly affirming for me because it sounds very much like music I first started playing when I started playing again AND I started on the pump organ (which at least one of the musicians at the start of the music is playing on). I've had to really staunchly stand up for myself and my music to other musicians and to my past notions of music, and have definitely gotten defensive around playing music like this. No more. I'll just send people to this. And I'm definitely going to focus on playing more like this again. Thanks again for bringing this into our lives! <3
- scrozier 5y ago
  There were about 250 people in the audience that night, which I thought was amazing for a program of experimental music involving pump organs, a banjo, and a Korean mouth-blown reed instrument.