Re: [Harp-L] this recent thread on positions, notes, colors etc...

[Garry Hodgson <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aeskow@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Playing harp, like singing, has always felt like an athletic rather than an  
> intellectual adventure to me.  And navigating into "the zone"--whether it's  
> running down a long fly ball or tantalizing a crowd with a building riff--feels 
>  like a process of 1) knowing the fundamentals of "the game" to whatever 
> extent  is needed to make you feel solidly "in play" at your position, 2) 
> registering  the "weather"--the wind, the feel of the turf, or the mood of the 
> audience, and  then 3) going ahead and "playing"--which means going into a state of 
> what John  Keats called "negative capability," free of preconceptions, 
> self-doubt, even the  most basic self-consciousness...  

as a favorite martial arts quotes puts it:

     aikido is half physics, and half magic.
     but the magic doesn't work until you get the physics right.

i think people like chris have the physics sufficiently
right that they get to live in the magic.

> For me, this has been the Way.  I guess I experience it as a goal,  rather 
> than a technique, but when it happens it feels very close to  levitation.

this is my goal, as well.

----
Garry Hodgson, Technical Consultant, AT&T Labs

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