So yeah, on september 19th my hearless music (or 'visual music' as I call it now) aired on TV! pretty AWESOME.
The local news channel read the paper (where I was in) and wanted to make an item of it. Hell Yeah I wanted to do it haha!
So my TV debut can be watched here: "visual music project on TV", and also a somewhat extended interview on the radio can be found there aswell.
And you know whats cool, on the same day that it was broadcasted I got interviewed by national TV, HA! I don't know when it's out there but I'm actually kinda proud what my small statement has reached already. Will it stop here (I think so) or will it gain more interest from diffirent types of media (I hope so!).
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music for the people who have no time to listen
At last! Finally I have footage of my hearless music project!!!
So this is what the people see when they drive by :)
Awesome,
Personal Politics: My Truth
In continuation of Bad Listener I shall now write down my philosophy about the arrogance of our way of 'thinking for others',
The title of the song 'The Unthinking Majority' from Serj Tankian sums up perfectly how our human behaviour works,
We like to think that others don't think (or think less) about everything than we do ourselfs,
Now at the same time everybody has all the answers to problems that go from inside your house all the way up to global proportions,
And we all agree on how 'they' are doing it wrong,
Is it not a little bit arrogant to say that the majority is unthinking?
It often looks like it but than again it is only been seen from your own point of view,
So is one (prejudiced) source enough for us to convince us that THAT is the(!) truth?
It is probably better to call it 'my truth',
Ocourse I also suffer from this 'the(!) truth' syndrome,,,
I too think often;"Why don't you all see how it really is!?"
But then I realize myself that I shouldn't think like that,
What if I am wrong? than I convince everybody to be wrong,
But even when I am right than it still isn't necessary to set my truth above others,
Now I don't say that you may not convince others of your truth,
The more point of views you can look at it the clearer your own truth can be seen,
Unfortunately we often interpreting other truths in a disrespectful way,
We are going too fast to see other opinions so we like to stick to our own,
which will be clouded and colored if you leave it like that,
If you master the technique of using breaks to go slower it will reveal itself much clearer,
You will be able to hear the music (I love metaphors!) and see through different point of views the truth which you eventually consider as 'my truth' and not as 'the(!) truth,
That is for the fast people who haven't figured out to use breaks (or to walk instead of drive,,,)
Now I should point out that I am fully aware of the fact that I present 'my truth' as 'the(!) truth' in this piece of writing,
I truly think that this kind of thinking will make the world a better place (yeah, I'm that sort of a guy),
But as said earlier it is a good thing to convince people of 'my truth' and therefore it is necessary to state my truth as the(!) truth to make a point,
This way of thinking made me start the hearless music project in the first place,
Without an open mind stuff like this makes no sense,
It makes perfect sense to me,
That's why I play for traffic and make a fool out of myself,
Within the project everybody's mind has to open up,
But it is also arrogant to think that my mind is more open than yours,,,
That is not the case,
It is to make my point stronger and more convincing,
That I will discuss in a later writing,
For now I shall enjoy the last part of this awesome music composition called "Canto Ostinato" by Simeon ten Holt,
You should check it out if you like piano music,
It is beautiful.
,RUtger
The title of the song 'The Unthinking Majority' from Serj Tankian sums up perfectly how our human behaviour works,
We like to think that others don't think (or think less) about everything than we do ourselfs,
Now at the same time everybody has all the answers to problems that go from inside your house all the way up to global proportions,
And we all agree on how 'they' are doing it wrong,
Is it not a little bit arrogant to say that the majority is unthinking?
It often looks like it but than again it is only been seen from your own point of view,
So is one (prejudiced) source enough for us to convince us that THAT is the(!) truth?
It is probably better to call it 'my truth',
Ocourse I also suffer from this 'the(!) truth' syndrome,,,
I too think often;"Why don't you all see how it really is!?"
But then I realize myself that I shouldn't think like that,
What if I am wrong? than I convince everybody to be wrong,
But even when I am right than it still isn't necessary to set my truth above others,
Now I don't say that you may not convince others of your truth,
The more point of views you can look at it the clearer your own truth can be seen,
Unfortunately we often interpreting other truths in a disrespectful way,
We are going too fast to see other opinions so we like to stick to our own,
which will be clouded and colored if you leave it like that,
If you master the technique of using breaks to go slower it will reveal itself much clearer,
You will be able to hear the music (I love metaphors!) and see through different point of views the truth which you eventually consider as 'my truth' and not as 'the(!) truth,
That is for the fast people who haven't figured out to use breaks (or to walk instead of drive,,,)
Now I should point out that I am fully aware of the fact that I present 'my truth' as 'the(!) truth' in this piece of writing,
I truly think that this kind of thinking will make the world a better place (yeah, I'm that sort of a guy),
But as said earlier it is a good thing to convince people of 'my truth' and therefore it is necessary to state my truth as the(!) truth to make a point,
This way of thinking made me start the hearless music project in the first place,
Without an open mind stuff like this makes no sense,
It makes perfect sense to me,
That's why I play for traffic and make a fool out of myself,
Within the project everybody's mind has to open up,
But it is also arrogant to think that my mind is more open than yours,,,
That is not the case,
It is to make my point stronger and more convincing,
That I will discuss in a later writing,
For now I shall enjoy the last part of this awesome music composition called "Canto Ostinato" by Simeon ten Holt,
You should check it out if you like piano music,
It is beautiful.
,RUtger
Bad Listener
In continuation of Post,
No the title is not Homogenic (3rd post/3rd record),
although that is my favorite Björk album,
I like her a lot,
Yes,
But to go deeper in the project of the hearless music (more to come) I shall give a little insight now;
We are hasty people,
Enjoy a fast ride,
Hurry to be 'on time',
And because we all are on 'speedy mode' we do not have time to stop and see/hear/smell/feel/sense/know what is going on,
I find this disturbing,Now ofcourse I too get fast,
And when sped up it is of no use to go slow,
Why then do it? you might ask,
It is a good thing to know where your breaks are,
I know where my breaks are,
And I use them,
Jeej for me,,,
Now I always like to use music as an example,
In this case 'fast' means; easy to be quickly satisfied,
I hear a song or melody and when it sounds okay I will go with it,
This counts for everyone,
So the 'okay' is good enough for me,
so it seems,
Luckely (for me atleast) I hear a diffirence between music that sounds like music and music that sounds like money,
I do not like the sound of money
I do like money,
If you have too much of it I volunteer to take it from you,
Actually I am kidding,
Bad listeners are the ones who do not hear the difference,
They are not to blame,
If they like it it is perfectly okay with me, (or without me)
But they go (too?) fast,
Unfortunately a lot of those listeners DO have a problem with appreciating music that sounds like music, (slow people causes traffic?)
If one has heard too much of the other kind it is hard to not mistaken it for the real one,
Again I do not blame them,
I probably do it aswell on other aspects,
But because music is so dear to me I take it highly,
The tunnelvision of what are the boundaries on music are way too close,,,
As for me; I try not to see the boundaries,
Everything can be music (or art for that matter),
I am not a hippie,
I like sound, that is all,
The way of thinking that there are no boundaries is my break to the fastness,
It is literally an open mind of interpreting life as a whole,
Cause it is not only the music,
It is everything,
Now I do sound like a hippie,,,
bleh,
Now to go back to the project of hearless music,
Some might see that as a boundary:"what is the use of playing if we can not hear it?"
(they probably think too practical anyway rather than see the art of it,)
On first sight I agree with them,
But that is the 'fast' part,
Cause if they stopped they would understand,
Now in the metaphor of playing for traffic (aka: the people who have no time to listen) this is total irony cause when they stop they actually CAN hear the music, which is the point of my statement,!
Not that I want people to stop and listen, then I really am the slow person that cause traffic,
Or even to understand why I am playing there (reminding you that a lot of people do not want to stop, that takes a mindshift aswell),
But if people want to know I have a good explanation for why I am doing this,
(and it is also to get the attention on me in a striking way rather than play on a regular stage where you expect it, which ofcourse I also will do)
Pretend like you did not read the last "( )" part so we can wrap it up with a feeling of satisfaction.
No the title is not Homogenic (3rd post/3rd record),
although that is my favorite Björk album,
I like her a lot,
Yes,
But to go deeper in the project of the hearless music (more to come) I shall give a little insight now;
We are hasty people,
Enjoy a fast ride,
Hurry to be 'on time',
And because we all are on 'speedy mode' we do not have time to stop and see/hear/smell/feel/sense/know what is going on,
I find this disturbing,Now ofcourse I too get fast,
And when sped up it is of no use to go slow,
Why then do it? you might ask,
It is a good thing to know where your breaks are,
I know where my breaks are,
And I use them,
Jeej for me,,,
Now I always like to use music as an example,
In this case 'fast' means; easy to be quickly satisfied,
I hear a song or melody and when it sounds okay I will go with it,
This counts for everyone,
So the 'okay' is good enough for me,
so it seems,
Luckely (for me atleast) I hear a diffirence between music that sounds like music and music that sounds like money,
I do not like the sound of money
I do like money,
If you have too much of it I volunteer to take it from you,
Actually I am kidding,
Bad listeners are the ones who do not hear the difference,
They are not to blame,
If they like it it is perfectly okay with me, (or without me)
But they go (too?) fast,
Unfortunately a lot of those listeners DO have a problem with appreciating music that sounds like music, (slow people causes traffic?)
If one has heard too much of the other kind it is hard to not mistaken it for the real one,
Again I do not blame them,
I probably do it aswell on other aspects,
But because music is so dear to me I take it highly,
The tunnelvision of what are the boundaries on music are way too close,,,
As for me; I try not to see the boundaries,
Everything can be music (or art for that matter),
I am not a hippie,
I like sound, that is all,
The way of thinking that there are no boundaries is my break to the fastness,
It is literally an open mind of interpreting life as a whole,
Cause it is not only the music,
It is everything,
Now I do sound like a hippie,,,
bleh,
Now to go back to the project of hearless music,
Some might see that as a boundary:"what is the use of playing if we can not hear it?"
(they probably think too practical anyway rather than see the art of it,)
On first sight I agree with them,
But that is the 'fast' part,
Cause if they stopped they would understand,
Now in the metaphor of playing for traffic (aka: the people who have no time to listen) this is total irony cause when they stop they actually CAN hear the music, which is the point of my statement,!
Not that I want people to stop and listen, then I really am the slow person that cause traffic,
Or even to understand why I am playing there (reminding you that a lot of people do not want to stop, that takes a mindshift aswell),
But if people want to know I have a good explanation for why I am doing this,
(and it is also to get the attention on me in a striking way rather than play on a regular stage where you expect it, which ofcourse I also will do)
Pretend like you did not read the last "( )" part so we can wrap it up with a feeling of satisfaction.
Post
In continuation of Debut,
The new born concept of hearless music is yet to be fully understand with anyone,
Even by the creator itself,
It is not a variation on 4'33 by John Cage,
That piece is written to witness the silence in music,
I liked it,
But the hearless music IS actually played with sound,
The crowd is the non-listener,
They are doing their own little things,
Like listening to their own music,
Or watching the road while driving,
That is a good thing to do,
I support that,
And it will not be my intention to move their attention away from it,
As was the case with the trainconductors,
No,
At the place where cars and people meet,
I stood on a bridge that is in use for walking and cycling people,
From there I played to the traffic below me at rush hour,
I was not playing really good and I forgot most of the songs I know,
The drivers with steering wheels did not care,
They liked it,
I recieved applause, waving, thumbs up, WTF faces, bright lights, hootering and ignoring faces
I liked it,
So apparently even though when nobody can really hear you people still appreciate music,
Or they just get a good laugh from some crazy dude who's playing for cars and trains.
,RUtger
The new born concept of hearless music is yet to be fully understand with anyone,
Even by the creator itself,
It is not a variation on 4'33 by John Cage,
That piece is written to witness the silence in music,
I liked it,
But the hearless music IS actually played with sound,
The crowd is the non-listener,
They are doing their own little things,
Like listening to their own music,
Or watching the road while driving,
That is a good thing to do,
I support that,
And it will not be my intention to move their attention away from it,
As was the case with the trainconductors,
No,
At the place where cars and people meet,
I stood on a bridge that is in use for walking and cycling people,
From there I played to the traffic below me at rush hour,
I was not playing really good and I forgot most of the songs I know,
The drivers with steering wheels did not care,
They liked it,
I recieved applause, waving, thumbs up, WTF faces, bright lights, hootering and ignoring faces
I liked it,
So apparently even though when nobody can really hear you people still appreciate music,
Or they just get a good laugh from some crazy dude who's playing for cars and trains.
,RUtger
Debut
Apparently I have something to say,
For now no one will care,
Perhaps it will change,
I would like that,,,
Now I shall start with my sayings about tellings;
Yesterday on the 6th of may I caused several traindelays,
It was not intentionaly and it was the opposite of what I was trying to reach,,,
I went to this temporary station at the beach which is only in use in the summer,
There I played music for the people who where in a rush,
They had no time to listen,
But if they looked out of the windows they could see me playing my guitar,
Which was the reason I played on that spot; music is more than the sound it makes,
I proofed it on that day cause people knew I was performing music,
They have seen it,
If I was in the likings of my fast crowd I may never know cause they never heard me,
But I have catched a few smiles,
After a couple fast trains the following ones weren't fast at all,
Some even stopped,
Did they want to make time to listen to the (untill now) unhearable music?
No,,,
Although I would've been honored if they did,
The driver with no steering wheel stopped to tell me the following;
"are you suicidal? If we think someone is trying to jump we aren't allowed to go fast,,,"
I was shocked! Trains that are not allowed to go fast?!?
Because I stood still on a platform in the middle of somewhere with no people around me?
I was just playing some nice tunes for the trains and the people in it,
Not to kill myself,,,
I shook the conductor his hand and told him I ment no harm at all,
Apparently something that was ment as a nice and happy gesture for people with haste turned out to be interpreted as an attempt to suicide,,,
Today I'm going to try a different way to play music for people that have no time,
See if drivers with steering wheels are accepting my invetation for hearless music.
,RUtger
For now no one will care,
Perhaps it will change,
I would like that,,,
Now I shall start with my sayings about tellings;
Yesterday on the 6th of may I caused several traindelays,
It was not intentionaly and it was the opposite of what I was trying to reach,,,
I went to this temporary station at the beach which is only in use in the summer,
There I played music for the people who where in a rush,
They had no time to listen,
But if they looked out of the windows they could see me playing my guitar,
Which was the reason I played on that spot; music is more than the sound it makes,
I proofed it on that day cause people knew I was performing music,
They have seen it,
If I was in the likings of my fast crowd I may never know cause they never heard me,
But I have catched a few smiles,
After a couple fast trains the following ones weren't fast at all,
Some even stopped,
Did they want to make time to listen to the (untill now) unhearable music?
No,,,
Although I would've been honored if they did,
The driver with no steering wheel stopped to tell me the following;
"are you suicidal? If we think someone is trying to jump we aren't allowed to go fast,,,"
I was shocked! Trains that are not allowed to go fast?!?
Because I stood still on a platform in the middle of somewhere with no people around me?
I was just playing some nice tunes for the trains and the people in it,
Not to kill myself,,,
I shook the conductor his hand and told him I ment no harm at all,
Apparently something that was ment as a nice and happy gesture for people with haste turned out to be interpreted as an attempt to suicide,,,
Today I'm going to try a different way to play music for people that have no time,
See if drivers with steering wheels are accepting my invetation for hearless music.
,RUtger
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