I've been thinking ahead lately. Mostly about what I want to do when I finish my masters in 2007. I suppose it's probably bad for me to be thinking this far ahead and not focusing on my work at the present. It's always a bad idea as my dad says to "put the cart before the horse" (it's amazing how many expressions have become antiquated due to technology), but I can't help thinking about what I want to do when I'm done... Or what I might have the possibility to do.
First on my list of plans is to get out of the country for a while. I'm thinking September 2007 I get on a plane and I go to one of two places:
1) Europe: I get a work visa and fly over to Europe. I travel Europe via the Euro-rail crashing at youth hostels and getting the odd job waiting tables or delivering packages when funds run low. I see the classics which all artist are supposed to revel in; the famous museums, the opera halls, the galleries, the architecture. I study theory with a pedagogical master and take composition lessons across Europe from various composers, soaking in national styles, expanding my musical horizons and growing as a musician. I meet talented people and get wrapped up in artistic ventures. I meet a beautiful intelligent Swedish super model... Well maybe not that.
2) Japan/Asia: I get a work visa and fly over to Japan to teach English and make some money in the process. I travel Japan and parts of Asia seeing the Eastern architecture and soak in this foreign culture. I learn about Japanese musical instruments perhaps even learning to play one and take lessons in composition from composers in Asia learning a whole new style and approach to musical composition and design and grow farther away from traditional Western compositional ideas. I meet a beautiful intelligent Japanese super model....
I've just felt lately that as much as I'm enjoying school right now and I'm learning a lot that I need to take a year or two off and do something totally new. I really think I need a change of scenery and a new direction to really get myself to the next step. What that next step would be, I don't know.
At the very least I'll come back from either place with stories, pictures and pages and pages of music.
5 comments:
Sounds like a good plan.
My vote goes for Asia. Friggin everyone does the europe thing. It's a little played out.
In fact, screw em both - go study music in the Artic.
Second on the played out thing; second on the Arctic thing as well.
Maybe Africa is a good place to look into as well.
Africa is a fantastic idea.
Do that.
Africa would be fantastic. There's so much variety there. You'd just have to be careful what parts of Africa you went too.
i'm pretty sure there's no people on the moon... in fact i'm pretty sure there's oxgygen on the moon. That means there is no air. Without air, vibrations can not occur... therefore I'm pretty sure that it would be impossible to have music on the moon... but then again what do I know? I'm just a musician... i'll leave that crazy stuff to people like Ming.
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