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Wednesday, July 02, 2003
 Mother Planet 5 For Large View of Art Piece Click on Picture In The Groove "In rock and jazz music there is also a stage similar to kindling. It is called the groove. A groove occurs when the rhythm is so strong that it seems to carry itself. The larger structures -- harmony, melody, texture, and form -- become ignited by a solid rhythmic feel. It is accurately said of musicians that when they 'play in the groove,' they cannot play anything that does not work. Even mistakes -- wrong notes, wrong phrasing, and so on -- always somehow work. But when a musician is not in the groove, anything he does will not work -- including playing all the 'right' notes in the 'right' places. When you're in the groove, a strong underlying structure upholds and generates energy, leading to more and more momentum. When you're not in the groove, you must impose energy on the environment you are in, and the energy is not supported. Consequently, energy doesn't build and it becomes depleted. Inertia, rather than momentum, develops and leads to more and more difficulties. . . . In a mindless quest for overachievement, many people willfully stretch themselves in defiance of the natural forces in play. If they were building a fire, they would not allow for enough air. They would be working against their goals by working on them with excessive zeal. In their attempts to create what they want, they would work hard, but not smart, and they would eventually burn themselves out. (from Robert Fritz's book Creating, pp. 202-3) So the Question is: Are we grooving (with its innervating implied momentum), or are we forcing it--trying to go one better, suffocating our creation or our mutual creation by not giving it enough air...? I can feel the air being dampened, when I experience myself being self aware, doing a Bernard....overachieving in the suffocating sense always involves trying to do; or actualize ones thoughts, feelings, impulses, desires-- rather than grooving-- losing self boundaries and merging you own uniqueness with what's going on. Letting the music or moment take you, rather than the STRIVING for excellence, or innovation, or..........It's like when you are dancing-- you are grooving with your partner--- and you can't do any wrong... AND THEN you notice people are watching you and if you play to that--you will lose it...you will become the dancer playing to the audience, and you no longer Be the Dancing. You are just Pa, or Ma, doing Pa, or Ma dancing, instead of doing Dancing. Same thing when making love start worrying about being satisfying, satisfied, excellent at it....and plop....yet if you are grooving--let go of self, in the mood-- what's high or what's low-- what's clumsy or smooth...sometimes clumsy is a cool addition... it's just far out.....It's the same with Art or Life or their interpenetration.... Bernard dov ( Aum-pa ) Wisser (today) *To SEE MORE OF WISSER'S ART--CLICK here-- Click : Marvel Place* RATE THIS JOURNAL? COLUMN? BLOG...WHAT EVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT...below... Top Colored button means "great!" Bottom colored button means "Feh!"
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