Hubble
May 14th, 2007 by Nico Steijn
AudioBlog: Hubble by Nico Steijn
Ad Lib and Intuition
May 9th, 2007 by Nico Steijn
Ad-Lib and Intuition
It is relatively easy to put the idea of the free association-process into practice: mainly a matter of letting yourself go after you’ve spoken your first line. You just allow your brain to do the necessary associations and don’t hesitate too long before speaking, writing or playing your next line.
Sit back as it were and let your brain do its own thing. It may be that at first you don’t quite know what your brain is coming up with. It’s a matter of trusting that whatever comes out will make sense to those who read or hear it. Don’t question or doubt what you hear yourself say or see written down, because everything is connected to everything. One thing inevitably leads to another and time doesn’t come in to it. That opens the door to intuition, which operates out of time and does not depend on any intellectual conclusion at the end of an elaborate web of words. Continue Reading »
The meaning of life
Apr 28th, 2007 by Nico Steijn
Nico’s Audio Blog about the meaning of life
Well?
Apr 25th, 2007 by Nico Steijn
Well?
When your work doesn’t fit in any of the established categories, you run the risk of remaining unknown, with a big chance of getting contaminated by a disease called the van Gogh-syndrome. You won’t be sponsered and promoted by publishers and galleries: you’ll have to do that yourself. It’s a lousy thing for any artist to praise personal work to a public that would rather wait for the critic to inform it. Continue Reading »
Fine Arts
Apr 24th, 2007 by Nico Steijn
Long and Final
Apr 24th, 2007 by Nico Steijn
Long and Final
Imagine: all the world’s musical sound makers uniting with each other and coming together in one place to make a special sound for the ailing world. Whatever would come from the resulting power surge of that special kind of energy, generated by their physical togetherness at one single point in time and space, would be monitored, recorded and distributed. The resulting impact would be such that the world had never heard, seen or felt before. Continue Reading »