Re: ambivalent feelings about playing live (was: PrePrepared vs. Improvisational)

[Tony K <bigtonyk@gmail.com>]

I picked up an interesting book related to all this.  It's called The
Inner Game of Music.  I'm not too far into it, but it's got some
interesting ideas about dealing with performing and practice and how
there are 2 "Selfs" in people's personalities that deal with how we
relate to music.  One self (Self 1)is the creative free spirit, and
the other is the distracted critical one that keeps us from our
potential.

Anybody else read it?

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Miko Biffle<biffoz@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's why I NEVER shut the door on future possibilities Per!  I
> haven't written anything off—I'm just going with my honest feellings.
> Life, feelings, possessions—all things must pass.  Thanks for your
> story.  Maybe there's hope for me yet?  -m
>
> On 7/10/09, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I found the posts from Kevin and Miko deeply touching, since it calls
>>  back memories from a period where I just found the idea of performing
>>  music in front of people bizarre and absurd. This happened to me in
>>  the early nineties and I had by then been playing regularly with
>>  gigging bands since the early seventies <snip>.
>>
>>  It's amazing how your life changes with the world all the time. You
>>  never know what comes around the next corner. <snip>
>
>



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