Grahamhsu said:
I probably came off as frustrated, I'm not a good writer, and I'm pretty bad at expressing my ideas/feelings into words, so part of the fault lies with me as well. Disagree with the bolded, there are visual tricks a musician can use to express more intensity. It's good you have experience in classical music so I can explain. I'm guessing you already know what a bow is, now if I were to only use 1/4 of the bow for the first half of a piece, and than suddenly use all of it when I hit the climax of the piece, wouldn't that naturally give a clue to the audience that the section I'm playing with more bow is more important than everything that precluded it, even if the dynamic volume were the same? Also there are people that play better than they look, I was one of those as a student because of my horrible posture. My violin professor always told me I sound immensely better when he closed his eyes because of how bad I looked. Vice versa also applies, I knew a student that moved so gracefully, parents and adults that didn't understand music would think she played like a virtuoso, but every single student I knew complained about her lack of musicality. As for closing your eyes to music I think that's good, to me by closing your eyes you are letting less visual information get processed and allows your ear to absorb more sound. That's what a majority of musicians will say is happening, but we have no actual science to prove it, so it's more of a hypothesis. |
I understand, and I acquiesce the point concerning visuals in music.
