When aware of respiration and the skin breathing while playing, the music produced is noticeably better. Has anyone found the same?
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Great topic!
Kind of depends what sort of music one is producing and what instruments one plays I think. When I play in the Dead Air Fresheners, I try to get into a total trance, which is a big part of why we wear masks. So to be honest, I'm not "aware" in normal terms of breathing or even senses as conventionally perceived. I'm so lost in the music that I might be part of it's breath.
Ornette Coleman, however, has a technique of circular breathing that makes his saxophone playing literally like something from another plane of reality. He calls this music harmalodic, and I don't think anyone could deny that what he does with breath is at the very core of existence.
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I suppose that could be. Too me, it is more becoming one with the music and the experience on a level that those outside forces are no longer relevant.
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Oh, I do too, in a different context. And yes, if something happens in a room it will have an effect, trance or no. But the room is no longer an "outside force" as it is very much a part of the experience.
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I find this also works in another way.
For instance when playing pulsing music and the drummer is tight on the four the adrenalin surge you get can make you feel everything around you sharper and you get more focussed.
Or maybe thats just me
An interesting phenomena though"I hate to advocate drugs,alcohol,violence or insanity to anyone,but they've always worked for me"
Hunter S Thompson
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