The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.
Monk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote... See more
Some music is just imagined
“It’s not the notes that matter; it’s the space around the notes that you leave. That’s what creates a deeper relationship with what you’re trying to express.”
The Nightingale's Song – with Sam Lee
If you listened to a piece of music and assessed that piece of music by how many A notes or B notes were played, you would miss the music if you piled up all the rests and rhythmic info you would miss the music. The music is in the notes rhythms and silences, but it is also in the memories of your life the impressions the music brings up for you,
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