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alonewiththemoonMy skin is so, so happy with the change in the weather. Funny, you'd think I was bred for temps in the 60s with moderate humidity. Not so crazy about this getting up in the dark in the morning thing, but it was pretty nice to leave work for dance class yesterday feeling alert in the sunshine.
Oh! I got my snake costume yesterday and I am more in love with it than ever. I left it out on the dining room table all night just so I could go stare smittenly at it. Pictures will be forthcoming when I've done some tailoring. The bra needs a little work, but I tell you this thing was made to fit my bottom half. The skirt is even exactly the right length!
Great class with Najmat as usual last night. The class will be performing a drum solo and a pop song together at the annual Green Street Studios fundraiser/open house--I'm excited about working on drum solo because I have been feeling very boring in my own drum solos lately. Well, maybe I'm not boring, but rather somewhat bored with my current rather basic level of interpretation and wanting to push it further. Having a Najmat drum solo dissected and laid out as choreography will be very educational, I am thinking.
I've been reading This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession and finding it very stimulating, although at times somewhat tough reading. Because I know a fair amount about music, I can cruise along through the discussions of composition, tone, etc but once the neuro stuff comes in, I have to concentrate. I haven't read enough yet to have a strong sense of what it's all about, but will post more when I've finished it. I am all the more grateful to my parents, particularly my dad, for exposing us to so much variety of music when we were young, even if I didn't always appreciate it at the time. I'm sure all that African-influenced early bebop in the house has helped me process Arabic music--or at least the experience of hearing music that is as intellectual as it is emotional honed my ability to analyze music as I listen to it without losing sight of its emotional content, something that's really essential for a dancer.
Oh! I got my snake costume yesterday and I am more in love with it than ever. I left it out on the dining room table all night just so I could go stare smittenly at it. Pictures will be forthcoming when I've done some tailoring. The bra needs a little work, but I tell you this thing was made to fit my bottom half. The skirt is even exactly the right length!
Great class with Najmat as usual last night. The class will be performing a drum solo and a pop song together at the annual Green Street Studios fundraiser/open house--I'm excited about working on drum solo because I have been feeling very boring in my own drum solos lately. Well, maybe I'm not boring, but rather somewhat bored with my current rather basic level of interpretation and wanting to push it further. Having a Najmat drum solo dissected and laid out as choreography will be very educational, I am thinking.
I've been reading This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession and finding it very stimulating, although at times somewhat tough reading. Because I know a fair amount about music, I can cruise along through the discussions of composition, tone, etc but once the neuro stuff comes in, I have to concentrate. I haven't read enough yet to have a strong sense of what it's all about, but will post more when I've finished it. I am all the more grateful to my parents, particularly my dad, for exposing us to so much variety of music when we were young, even if I didn't always appreciate it at the time. I'm sure all that African-influenced early bebop in the house has helped me process Arabic music--or at least the experience of hearing music that is as intellectual as it is emotional honed my ability to analyze music as I listen to it without losing sight of its emotional content, something that's really essential for a dancer.
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Date: 2007-03-14 08:20 pm (UTC)That book seems interesting, but I don't know that much about music, but would probably be okay with the neuro stuff. :)