RE: [Harp-L] thinking vs feeling

["Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I concede that it is possible but it depends on one's point of view. 

Remember the exercise with Allen Holmes at Paul Messinger's house in
1998.  Allen was playing a song beautifully.  A song he'd never
played before, in a position he's never played before.  He was guided
by his ears, listening to the Cosmos, then thought interupted him and
he got off track.  He thought about where to go next and the
connection was broken. That very moment had a huge effect on me and
how I see and play things. 

I believe my music comes from elsewhere and for me, thinking
interupts the download. Aside from playing determined/written
melodies I try not to think and only feel.  I can always tell the
thinking musicians vs the feeling musicians - I happen to prefer the
feeling type and I have seen though my own experience how audiences
react to my "emotional" playing versus my "thinking" playing.





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>---- Original Message ----
>From: icemanle@xxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] thinking vs feeling
>Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:50:45 -0400
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>>Do you suppose that one may be able to think and feel at the same
>time?
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>>To me, it is not either/or, but both.
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>>The only way to describe the grooving with both is - time seems to
>slow down. I think through my options clearly, feel where I want to
>place a note and then arc a musical idea. Once the line begins, it
>takes on a life of its own. I have as much fun wondering how it will
>turn out as anyone.
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>>In reality, the "thinkings" last a microsecond; however, it goes by
>in sloooow motion. The microsecond is too short in real time to
>internally disconnect from the feeling process.
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>>Tennis players in "the zone" who make miraculous returns have
>described that moment as "time slowing down so much that the ball
>seemed suspended in the air until I could reach it".
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>>The Iceman
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>>From: Chris Michalek Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>><<To me, there is something wrong with conscience note choice simply
>>because it involves thinking which stops the feeling process.>>
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