Field Study Proposal
My primary learning objective is to learn as much from the piano as possible. I want to sit with pianos, play them, read about music theory, and piano history and mechanics. I want to learn more about how reading music works, and which sounds blend together to create a song, or not. I want to play as many pianos as possible during my field study, and discover within myself more about what performance feels like to me, and more about the ways I like to compose music.
On the finite keys of the piano, I am immersing myself in the infinite ocean of sound.
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ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes
- P – Time log week 7 February 24, 2013 February 18th – Sleeping off sickness 1.5 hour – reading Perloff, Bachelard February 19th 2 hours – Piano play 1 hour – Reading and Responding to Seminar Passes 1.5 hours – Working on several Lipogram ...
- P – Week 6 log February 17, 2013 February 11th 1 hour – word press 1.5 hour – reading Perloff, Bachelard 1 hour – Writing reveries of hands and fingers .5 hour – reading Benjamin 1 hour – writing poetry, including poetry for ...
- P – Timelog Week 8 February 1, 2013 February 25th .5 hour – word press 3 hour – reading Perloff, Bachelard, The 7th Dragon 1.5 hour – writing poetry, including poetry for sem pass 1 hour – posting seminar pass and reading ...
- P – Week 5 Log January 23, 2013 January 31st 1.5 hr – playing the piano, first time ever writing music! I have a couple lines ( : February 1st 1.5 hours – playing and composing on the piano 3 hours – ...
Bachelardian Reverie
- P – Bachelardian Reverie week 8 February 27, 2013 “Who will help us descend into our caverns?” The Poetics of Reverie, pg 149. “It is an honor to be the wind It is happiness to be the stone” Alain Bosquet, as quoted in ...
- P – Bachelard – Week 7 Notes and Neurons and Me February 22, 2013 “While in the fields Of this eternal childhood The poet walks And doesn’t want to forget anything.” Jean Follain pg 110 of The Poetics of Reverie Notes and Neurons and Me Notes and neurons playing behind ...
- P – Bachelard Week 6 – Pounding postures of obsession February 20, 2013 “The Soul and the Mind do not have the same memory… O memory the soul renounces Frightened to conceive you.” The Poetics of Reverie, pg 104 I was also partly (perhaps mostly) inspired to ...
- P – Bachelard – Ode to the PIANO February 13, 2013 P I A N O the graceful letter P am I. And you should have No questions as to my gentle character, but Oh! How I have longed to be more than ...
Poetry
- P – Poetry Seminar Pass wk 8 “Begin and rebegin to … replunge us into the foam indefinitely dissipating the grains of sand innumerably enumerated by the light when all this i remember and again remember that ...
- P – Poetry Week 5 The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – By T.S. Eliot “There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time ...
- P – Poetry – Week 8 – Who Am I? I just want to melt into you and see what it is to be you. Who Am I? I live in a box and hold so much tension, All I want is some ...
- P – Week 8 Poetry “Begin and rebegin to … replunge us into the foam indefinitely dissipating the grains of sand innumerably enumerated by the light when all this i remember and again remember that ...
- P – Poetry Week 7 Frag . ments Q: How do you write music, melody, poetry, without Frag ments? Falling from my head to my lap. Clattering from the pockets of my coat patched with rainbows. Writing in snips, strips – fabric cut from the whole it ...
- P-Poetry Week 6 Hearts and Hammers Where is that delicate line that exists between creation of an art – music, drawing, writing – and romantic love? Does it exist at all? Hearts and Hammers Set me free Chocolate mahogany. I ...
- P – Poetry Week 5 Silence – Void Substance – Voice Void and Substance, Substance and Void, the Lotus and Spear, Phallus and Yoni. Silence – Void Vend ice soil C violin ...
Poetry Observed
Who Am I?
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Term Paper Abstract
Goethean science, and specifically delicate empiricism, is a participatory method in which the observer and the observed are in conversation. Each member of the pair takes turns questioning, listening, and finding new and deeper expression through experience (and as with any conversation, tension and silences happen). For this conversation to take place, a respect for the other partner as an autonomous and whole being is needed. In this paper, I give you glimpses through the window at my experience of immersing myself in my passion for the piano as an instrument, and as an instrument to know myself more fully. I played a piano that lives in my home over the month I delved into study. Embossed on her front is the brand – Stella – that assembled her nearly 100 years ago. Stella became the name for my partner (my piano) in my reveries of exploration – in composition, poetry and introspection.