Containers of Music
I was thinking about the connection between instruments and Identity and the music which exists naturally within a particular instrument. For example a violin has an identity and a music that exists within it; a guitar has a different life within it; a bass guitar has a different life within it. When I play them there's a resonance–the instrument is changing me. When I'm playing a guitar I'm a different person than when I'm playing bass or piano. The body adjusts to its form and is changing me in a kind of reciprocity, a feedback loop, with you having to surrender to the physical characteristics, which in turn changes you cognitively. Drummers understand music in a different way because something is going on cognitively that is different from other instruments. What I like in a drummer is the ability to react to whatever is happening in the music rather than forcing something into the music, all the while multitasking independent rhythmic parts. There's a complexi...
