incomplete melodies

[2018/02/09 @ 18:48] @ GTI about a month before the initial echoes saga

[2018/03/25 @ 21:48:00] @ Gruzenberg, Tel-Aviv, Israel

[2018/03/24 @ 12:12:29] @ Gruzenberg, Tel-Aviv, Israel

[2018/03/22 @ 20:27:46] @  Gruzenberg, Tel-Aviv, Israel

[2018/03/16 @ 22:29:21] @ Gruzenberg, Tel-Aviv, Israel

[2018/03/14 @ 18:47:53] @ Gruzenberg, Tel-Aviv, Israel new day, another attempt (#3)

[2018/03/13 @ 21:13:48] @ Gruzenberg, Tel-Aviv next day, attempt #2

[2018/03/12 @ 21:59:33] @ Gruzenberg, Tel-Aviv so so far we've had: guitar, midi synth on garage band, midi synth on animoog, electronic drum machine i think that's it this here is a dj set which i dj'ed on my traktor s8 which i had bought a year earlier i had been dj'ing for about 2 years at this point since april 2016 before i got the s8, i was controller-less i was using the app "virtual dj" co...

[2019/08/20 02:25:13 Yokneam Moshava?, Israel] i thought the trip would lift my sister's spirits and it might have but she continued to feel bad, often this was recorded on another occasion in which she asked to be supported i don't remember the precise circumstances but i know which setup i was using - my little irig keys and the ipad with the animoog app (which i gotta admit - has some pretty co...

[2019/07/11 09:39:41 Nuweibaa, Sinai] this is another recurring melody that has been with me for at least a year and a half i made a short video with another version of it in february 2018, during the protest i'm surprised i didn't call this one "the only song i know" because it seems even more characteristic of my playing than the other one i wonder which one came first, i guess they both had bee...

[2019/07/11 09:28:55 Nuweibaa, Sinai] i never considered myself to be a good guitar player i used to dream that i would be, but always felt embarrassed about my actual abilities i knew some chords, and some scales but couldn't really figure out how create a song out of them when strumming chords i always sounded bad to myself too much... not even sure what, just didn't like it so the way i managed...

[2018/10/20 12:44:43 Tel-Aviv?, Israel] this melody contains a lot of components that became central to my playing both in terms of the finger picking method and the specific chord formations used it reminds me of other recordings of a similar melody i feel like there's a certain melody-sequence (song?) that i played a lot i'm not sure when i started playing it, but i remember feeling like i had t...

[2018/09/15 14:52:21 from Naxos, Greece] from my first encounter with meditation i'd been both enticed by it and weary of it the buddhist philosophy made so much sense to me it felt like for the first time in my life i heard someone addressing questions which have occupied my attention for many years but which i've never had an adult conversation about i saw it everywhere and heard it spoken and s...

[2018/09/15 14:26:06 from Naxos, Greece] i was pretty big on / deep into / heavily invested in buddhism back then i was meditating for about 0.75-1.5 hours a day i was following the guidance of a structured meditation system called TMI - The Mind Illuminated I considered myself to be at stage 6 (out of 10) when you get to 10 you're supposed to become enlightened (i think, don't take my word for it...

[2018/09/04 14:06:37 from Tel-Aviv, Israel] a few months earlier... i played with meditating while i was playing guitar it's been a while since i figured that if you can meditate sitting, and you can meditate walking then you can also meditate biking or cooking or playing an instrument it's really a matter of concentration and often action demands more concentration than inaction not much to figur...

[2018/12/30 20:28:05 from Suello, Italy] an impossible question is the one that drives you you could never answer it you couldn't even phrase it and yet you can't let it go knowing what you know you can't get rid of it you can't resist the appear of it so you keep picking at it but like pinching water it gets you nowhere or does it?

[2018/12/30 00:45:47 from a yellowish room in Suello, Italy] it was the beginning of the second week of my self-imposed month-long meditation/reading/writing retreat (21.12.18 - 20.1.19) it was one of the first times i managed to record a multi-part song live & all by myself and i actually kinda liked it i remember going to sleep with it playing from my phone  it made me feel less lonely