Friday, May 01, 2009

I Am U

We are working on a new song. It's quite an unusual one this one is, for a few reasons. One, because of a very difficult transition between the two main parts: We have a verse. We'll call this "A melody", because that's what we call it. Morich, Masa, shunt and I are all good with "A melody", I even already have a nice vocal line picked out for it, which is fairly unusual so early in the game, (and that's reason 2). The second part, we'll call "B Melody" for the same reason as stated above has a different time signature (I think), and quite a tricky chord progression (see C. A. D. F. on facebook for that) that we're still learning. It's good clean fun, but it's also work.
Reason three for calling this song unusual is that I have chosen a title already, even though the music isn't finished and not one word has been written for it. The song will be, or is, I Am U. While we were working on it this evening, I made a face that I realized I had adopted from a former student of mine. Not a face I normally make, but one that she makes all the time. Then I remembered a thousand (give or take) little things that I have absorbed from everyone i meet and incorporate into my daily expressions. Facial poses, figures of speech, word usage, even accents and dialects. I realized at that moment that I am not, as some would say, the sum of all that I have learned, but more likely the sum of everyone I have met. I'm like a bad actor, the one that everyone who sees him perform can identify some little hint or cue taken from another actors repetoire. So if I am indeed the sum of everyone I have ever met, than in a nutshell, I am you, whoever you are. And if I'm not, I will be.

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