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		<title>Finding a new voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been composing much for a while. I&#8217;ve been telling myself that I don&#8217;t have enough space to set the studio up, that I don&#8217;t have enough time, that I&#8217;m more interested in software lately, but the honest truth is that I had gotten stuck.I&#8217;ve been toying around with a set of ambient tracks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t been composing much for a while. I&#8217;ve been telling myself that I don&#8217;t have enough space to set the studio up, that I don&#8217;t have enough time, that I&#8217;m more interested in software lately, but the honest truth is that I had gotten stuck.I&#8217;ve been toying around with a set of ambient tracks which are reasonably good, but I haven&#8217;t committed them to CD. I&#8217;ve not been satisfied with what I&#8217;ve been doing for a while now. I seem to be stuck in the same riff, the same chords, the same &#8220;you&#8217;ve heard this a thousand times&#8221; vaguely-new-age results.I&#8217;m not happy with this. The ambient stuff was an attempt to clear the decks and start off in a new direction, which partially succeeded, but didn&#8217;t move me to the new place I feel that I need to be.A couple of months ago, saw a sign for a local piano store. I looked in; looked good, and I decided to come back later. We hadn&#8217;t really decided that we were going to get a piano for sure, but we walked in and found a jewel of a piano.
<p>It seems to be like the <a href="http://www.centennialbulb.org/">hundred-year bulb</a>: all of the tiny little elements have al fallen into exactly the right place. It&#8217;s as warm and sensitive as any piano I&#8217;ve ever gotten to play, including a few Steinways. It feels like it&#8217;s been lovingly played for years, and has just gotten to that perfect place where it sounds as good as you could imagine.I&#8217;ve been playing it more and more; I lucked into a wonderful jazz piano book with a lot of extended harmony exercises. Since I&#8217;ve been playing them, my fingers are reaching for new things along with the old, and my playing is improving greatly; more right-brain than before, and my left hand is no longer just something to push buttons with while I play the keys with my right.I&#8217;m glad to have set aside the synths for a while. I don&#8217;t think I would have had this change to grow without first losing my voice and then finding it again. I feel like I can go back to my ambient tracks with fresh eyes and see what is there that I can really work with now.<small>[formatting updated 9/29/06 - JM]</small></p>
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