Playing Piano Improv at WaterMusic

Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Stan Stewart - @muz4now
Playing Piano Improv at WaterMusic

Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Stan Stewart - @muz4now
Playing Piano Improv at WaterMusic

Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Stan Stewart - @muz4now
Playing Piano Improv at WaterMusic

Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Stan Stewart - @muz4now

https://youtu.be/kZh5oE6A5ts

There are only TWO mindsets when it comes to #improvisation: we call them the "Planning" vs the "Discovering" mindsets. If you're an #improv student or teacher, this is core and important information to use in your craft.

#theater #improvising #actors #stagecraft #comedy #improvisers #theatre

Change Through Play Improv | Planning vs. Discovering

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A student asked me to go back and re-teach some #improv basics. Last week I gave them what they wanted.

A return to being in the moment and the #zen #meditation of #improvising

Join us! Improv classes in #portland are right around the corner.

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Change Through Play Improv & Training Studio

Change Through Play provides business training in Portland, corporate training in Seattle, and leadership training in Los Angeles using unscripted exercises that surface our blind spots. Our improv classes in Portland are perfect for actors and non-actors like. Improv training in Portland creates co

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When Movie Bloopers Were Too Good To Cut!

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This discussion of Thelonius Monk’s insistence on #improvising on the melody is everything I shoot for in my relationship to religious #tradition.
#religion #theology
https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/the-dancing-monk-and-the-rhythm-of-divine-life/
The Dancing Monk and the Rhythm of Divine Life

Thelonious Monk’s jazz aesthetic can help us reframe theological thinking, generate new categories, and envision radically inclusive modes of being in the world. By Raymond Carr

Harvard Divinity Bulletin

3/3

I'd always kind of filed this away as just related to the problem I've had following music that was too complex, which seemed to be a sensory input/short term memory/energy cost thing. I had similarly issues watching movies with subtitles, or following action sequences, or reading certain kinds of books, but as that's gotten better, this issue has stuck around, and follows the same sort of patterns as my word loss.

Anyway, if anyone's looking for something to do research on, there ya go. I'm not sure if other musicians are experiencing the same issue or not, and would be very interested if I'm not alone in this.

#MusicCognition #LongCovid #WordLoss #Improvising #Composition #Stimulus

2/3

I was listening to the most recent Cadence podcast and they mentioned in passing how musical information can follow the same pathways as language information. It hit me that I was having problems composing/improvising that mirror my word loss.

It's tricky to describe; English sucks at mental models of sound, and also word loss. I'll mentally reach for a sound that I know exists, but I can't find it in my head, or as something I can play on an instrument (piano/double bass). I know that there is a specific musical gesture/etc I was aiming towards, but I've lost access to it. This can also happen when I'm mixing music, but that's a newer skill for me. I'm not sure I'm doing a good job capturing what's going on, it's tough to describe. It took me 1.5 to put the two together, but in the moment it's an experience very much like when I'm trying to recall a specific word and I've lost it.

#MusicCognition #LongCovid #CadencePodcast #WordLoss #Improvising #Composition