a day in the life of piano monkey

omg look at that shipment on left corner... 6-7 stacks high... often i feel as if i have somehow extended my childhood right into the present.  despite of all that education (haha), i still dream about doing and learning something new, especially the things that you cannot and will not learn in formalized schools- such as stone paving/yard work, making pizzas at home from scratch, etc. and this winter, i took a look at my life and thought: 1. i could use some extra cash for dental bill, 2. i never done retail work. and as fall term tends to roll in slow (till point of avalanche in winter term), back in october, i dropped off my resume at lindt and a shop-display (like shopping mall santa display) building shop. the building shop, i thought it would be super cool to go back to working with power tools and build something in reality. sturdy, heavy things. why chocolate? i wanted to learn something from immensely popular and successful international corporate. and ...

in less than a week, univ peeps are facing the annual event: concerto competition. as i worked with many different people in different levels, the one common difficult that arise to the top (always) is 'memorization.' i personally feel that the requirement of memorization is old and antiquated, but as it will stay probably for another long while, it would be foolish to talk about its de/merits... sigh. however, about the memorization process itself, though there isnt a simple way that fits everyone, i do think there are certain principles that helps to memorize music. so here's a small architectural approach. 1. divide your music in large to small chunk: so all music, like stories, will have sections and sentences. break them down and look to see what their 'forms' are.  if it is an allegro-sonata form, see if there's any extra bits, such as coda(s), or extended cadences in unexpected places; for instance, extended instability in development is expecte...

so the festivities has left us and the world already experienced fair share of faith-shaking- it's only 7th of january, too. barely a week-old new year. there has been a few posts that i have started but have not been able to finish- as they meander. and i wonder if that's the true nature of this world, anyway. with the useful and familiar format of information packaging, writing guidelines and forms, outlines and limits of informatics, it is easy to believe that the world works in linear fashion and it's always between the opposing poles of some sorts. which leaves us all the extra-dimensions beyond 2-D to be forgotten. click. just like that. on or off. i am having a kinda nasty sinus cold and somewhat trying to ignore the voice of the 'ghost of the self.'   perhaps it's the diminished physical state that brings up the 'bad' psychological state. or they are not related at all. perhaps it's lack of 'running' that is accentuating m...