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rdm_ationI freaking love my life. I'm currently listening to the 'Priscilla: Queen of the Desert - The Musical' soundtrack, and it counts as study. 'MacArthur Park' is on there, and I seriously just laughed so hard. (the cake in the rain song, for the majority of people who wouldn't have a clue what I'm talking about). I then got all nostalgic about missing last year, and especially our Aural classes... this years just can't compete (on that note, so screwed for that exam. AGH)
You know what else I love about my life? Not only am I writing my Indonesian speech on musicals, I get to write an essay on gamelan fusion for that subject, I got a Distinction for my gamelan performance I was talking about and have now finished all my other assignments excluding the ones just mentioned.
'Your Indonesian is going exceptionally well then, right? ... Just not the viola.' <-- yep mum, that pretty much sums it up. Ahh the irony of my non-music subjects being better than my music ones.
I say this a LOT, but I am such a muso. I had a few moments of 'oh my goodness am I actually doing this' over the past few days.
Yesterday, I had a major, well, flail over this.
Violin, celeste, tackpiano (piano with thumbtacks used in the hammers to produce a more percussive sound) and Javanese gamelan. For a CONCERTO. I hardly ever know what I want to play, but I know that I want to play this more than I have ever wanted to play anything. This is the kind of thing I'm writing that essay on. When I heard it I actually couldn't articulate how amazing I thought it was. You read right, I was speechless =P
The other major muso moment was after class today (a particularly bad one, I wanted to shoot the lecturer...) when H,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snuggle_monster and I were just sitting around, H was playing snuggle_monster's guitar, and snuggle_monster was playing a different friends viola... that we kept passing around, switching instruments, and helping snuggle_monster with technique. Damn her for being able to get such a good tone out of it after 2 lessons. *shakes fist at multi-talented musicians*
Anyway, this past weekend was my uni's music 'festival' thing, so to speak, which went quite well. Got to see these guys play live, which was amazing. The piano concerto we did came off pretty well, as did Pomp and Circumstance despite the dodgy percussion entry. The energy of that one was phenomenal. First time I've really felt that kind of adrenalin on stage in an orchestra scenario. I was rather surprised, and pleased, that I felt comfortable enough with the viola to actually just enjoy it.
Oh, one more hilarious (to me anyway) moment from the weekend was when H, R, and J (and to some extent me) started randomly playing old Suzuki pieces in unison, totally from memory, with J adding harmonies on the viola. If I had my violin I would have joined in with more. We were sitting with another violinist, and the look on his face was absolutely PRICELESS.
WASHINGTON IN 3 DAYS!!!
SDFGJHDFSSDJHI
*flails*
Ahem. Excuse me.
And now I have used up enough of my night on this random and probably disjointed post.
To sum up: my uni subjects are awesome, and musos are awesome. The End.
You know what else I love about my life? Not only am I writing my Indonesian speech on musicals, I get to write an essay on gamelan fusion for that subject, I got a Distinction for my gamelan performance I was talking about and have now finished all my other assignments excluding the ones just mentioned.
'Your Indonesian is going exceptionally well then, right? ... Just not the viola.' <-- yep mum, that pretty much sums it up. Ahh the irony of my non-music subjects being better than my music ones.
I say this a LOT, but I am such a muso. I had a few moments of 'oh my goodness am I actually doing this' over the past few days.
Yesterday, I had a major, well, flail over this.
Violin, celeste, tackpiano (piano with thumbtacks used in the hammers to produce a more percussive sound) and Javanese gamelan. For a CONCERTO. I hardly ever know what I want to play, but I know that I want to play this more than I have ever wanted to play anything. This is the kind of thing I'm writing that essay on. When I heard it I actually couldn't articulate how amazing I thought it was. You read right, I was speechless =P
The other major muso moment was after class today (a particularly bad one, I wanted to shoot the lecturer...) when H,
snuggle_monster and I were just sitting around, H was playing snuggle_monster's guitar, and snuggle_monster was playing a different friends viola... that we kept passing around, switching instruments, and helping snuggle_monster with technique. Damn her for being able to get such a good tone out of it after 2 lessons. *shakes fist at multi-talented musicians*Anyway, this past weekend was my uni's music 'festival' thing, so to speak, which went quite well. Got to see these guys play live, which was amazing. The piano concerto we did came off pretty well, as did Pomp and Circumstance despite the dodgy percussion entry. The energy of that one was phenomenal. First time I've really felt that kind of adrenalin on stage in an orchestra scenario. I was rather surprised, and pleased, that I felt comfortable enough with the viola to actually just enjoy it.
Oh, one more hilarious (to me anyway) moment from the weekend was when H, R, and J (and to some extent me) started randomly playing old Suzuki pieces in unison, totally from memory, with J adding harmonies on the viola. If I had my violin I would have joined in with more. We were sitting with another violinist, and the look on his face was absolutely PRICELESS.
WASHINGTON IN 3 DAYS!!!
SDFGJHDFSSDJHI
*flails*
Ahem. Excuse me.
And now I have used up enough of my night on this random and probably disjointed post.
To sum up: my uni subjects are awesome, and musos are awesome. The End.
