Music and other Musings
I've recently come across this quote by Jim Carrey:
Depression is your body saying f*ck you, I don’t want to be this character anymore, I don’t want to hold up this avatar that you’ve created in the world. It’s too much for me. You should think of the word ‘depressed’ as ‘deep rest.’ Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character that you’ve been trying to play.
I don't have any real friends currently. At least I have my family, although my brother is pretty busy with his offspring.
I see my mother quite often. When she's away I experience times of intense loneliness especially on the weekends.
I found someone to make music with and we now practice my songs weekly.
In the meantime I wrote two new songs: Shine Forth and True Love
I'm going to write a little bit about how Shine Forth was created. Here's the only demo I've recorded so far (with my mobile, sorry):
Many people think they are introverts. They even label themselves as such. It's pretty easy to debunk this myth that there are introverts per se:
Have you ever seen a small child that is an introvert?
Probably not. It would be a rare exception. Once you too were not an introvert. Thus you are not really an introvert, but you have become an introvert.
The society and your upbringing made you an introvert and this is a reverseable process.
But as long as you limit yourself by saying “I am an introvert” you cannot free yourself and get rid of your conditioning.
In the last weeks I was so exhausted I could almost not do anything music-wise, well I couldn't almost do anything expect work, exercise and learn...
This song was lying around for weeks and I couldn't find the muse to continue. Here are all the lyrics and a first demo on my music page: Hold me now
I've been going through some tough times. I am living alone and the #Corona crisis has made me even more lonely than I normally am. Also, I'm under pressure, trying to do my work as good as possible from home, which isn't easy.
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I've seen it. I've seen people that think to hear God's voice and they take it seriously. They destroy other people's lives. In evangelical denominations it's quite common that the leaders emphasize hearing God's voice and they even encourage people to do it.
I have been posting my songs here for a while but I found it to be difficult to access them for myself through the blog.
To solve this I have created a simple static website with org-mode: under reto.nom.za/music/. I intend to post updates and blog entries here and the music itself on the other site now.
Hi! I'm Reto from #Bern, 🇨🇭 #Switzerland 🇨🇭. I work in IT and besides that I dabble in various fields.
I'd say the most important hobby I have is to write songs. I have been doing this for a long time but it mostly resulted in snippets I have recorded over the years and very few complete songs.
From 2018 I changed my approach and I began trying to write complete songs instead of just some chorus or riff. I have a learned a lot in the meantime. I was forced to write more lyrics and because of that, it got a lot easier over time.
I would say writing lyrics is not the stumbling block it used to be. It's pretty fun now and it also makes the #songwriting process more interesting. Sometimes I join a Shut Up & Write group in Bern to challenge myself and only work on some text. 😊
I play the #guitar and the #piano, but it's mostly just backing that I use it for, kind of like a tool to write songs 😁
This is one of my guitars, a small ascoustic Jazz guitar :
I have a Thomann e-piano at home and several other guitars, a Washburn western, a Takamine half-acoustic and a Yamaha e-guitar.
Quite recently I have changed my backing approach. I began exploring open guitar tunings. It has helped me a lot in finding an accompaniment that triggers my feeling which then enables me to start writing a new song. I have tried to describe this experience in the post The Awesomeness of Open Guitar Tunings.
You can clearly see that music is very important to me but I have other interests too 😀
I'm interested in social justice, psychology, philosophy, religion and theology. Not long ago I joined a Unitarian Universalists circle. I think it is a nice place to get into contact with people that have similar interests like me.
Sometimes I write about these topics on my blog here too. Apart from that I do a lot of sports: I go swimming (in the summer outside and in the winter indoors), jogging and to the gym. To stay flexible I do some Hatha Yoga just for myself.
There's a lot more to tell but I think it's enough for an “About Me” post. If you want to know more or contact me, you can write an email to 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒍@𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒐.𝒏𝒐𝒎.𝒛𝒂
Thanks and have a nice day! 🌞
In an interview Joni Mitchell answered the question “What is music?”:
I can't speak in general, but I can tell you what it is to me. Chords are colors that depict the current state of your emotionality – speaking as a a composer, ok let's put it into that context – as a composer at the moment that I sit down with the intention of composing, you know, I fritter across the piano or I strum across the strings until I find the chords that make me go “Oh!” at that moment. But most of music – pop music – they get this formula chords, well all the people like these chords, so they play them ad nauseam. So I think that's “ik”, music is when you pull the chords from your inner core, whether they sound weird to people or not and anyone adventuresome is doing that.