Dear reader(s),
Thanks to your praise, detest, constructive (or not) criticism and much more, I’m going to write in a whole new way. Thank you for everything. A writer can’t exist without a readership!
I’m not supposed to publish articles. I’ll be better off publishing stories with a real human connection. I can keep my massive scientific studies and meta analysis for actual, paper publications.
You asked, I deliver !
It’s going to be a radical change for you, and for me especially.
I’m a scientist, so the experimental model is still the obvious basis of my new way of writing stories.
Whatever I publish here on Medium is born on a notepad. The old-fashioned way. Scribbling on paper, dirty fingers!
Quoting myself:
As thought about and decided (still to be tested before being adopted for good), I’ll write my own thoughts in separate stories to be hyperlinked to each other. Only in the recap will I do everything I can to put everything together:
1. Original writings/source(s). Only factual and scientific,
2. My very own thoughts about it (which may be “dry” or Homeric).
Developments, digressions (which are actually not digressions, but ways of redirecting to another area/field).
3. A recap of both. The most unbiased possible, yet done in a way helping my voice be heard!
I’m not going to make friends, I’m not going to please everyone, but it’s on purpose.
The musicological and musical community needs to open its doors, else every last one of us will bring their knowledge to the underworld, and I can’t let that happen.
Not teaching, sharing, also! I don’t want to summarize and jump to hastened conclusion(s), because I believe that music is by definition never “ended”. If it was the case, why would we even bother still playing and creating?
The last bar of a score (written music is not the dominating one in any way, so I’m not going to think of it as such) is the end of a musical work, but not of music as a whole. Even the undefinable silence after listening to music is still part of music…
As a reference to my focus on rhetoric, my most developed field within musicology, I’ll put even more emphasis on the importance of silence during a speech! What’s (purposely or not) ignored and/or overlooked is going to be given a lot of credit.
I’m as much of an extreme death metal drummer as a truly Baroque (in all meanings of the word) viola da gamba and harpsichord player!
What allows me to play even my own 21st-century music —far from stereotypes, popular and oversimplified ways, even though I don’t value pedantic and academic ways at all, and find the “overthought vs. oversimplified” squabble absolutely pointless, energy-wasting, nerve-wrecking, and bluntly put, unnecessary – is the way music used to be played and why it has been played so.
It’s broadening my views.
There’s no present without past. I’m not going to say that past is the few that remains of present. Evidence is there to prove the opposite.
Past doesn’t mean dead. It means timeless.
I strongly advise anyone interested in my work to read Saint Augustin’s. It’s backing every single claim I may develop.
We do look back to our past much too often to give present any value… as much as we overvalue present, making it an absolute reference. It’s not.
Present is so ephemeral that it has no weight. Also, it’s the only part of Chronos that constantly renews itself.
The past remains what it is. The way we look at it and understand it may vary, but it is in essence the same for everyone. It’s a collective heritage and treasure.
The future? I’m not going to make friends if I say that it has no value.
Do we even know what it is? Rhetorical question. I already know the answer!
That’s not going to please anyone, but scientifically, even with big data and simulations, we do not know anything at all.
Yet we plan, we behave like if we knew anything about it.. totally unbeknownst of what the future is, and what it is made of.
It’s not going to help us in any way. Let’s focus on what we have. It’s more than enough.
That’s it for now. I hope you’ve understood why I had to write this tiny story. I care about you and value your opinion.
I’m not going to change my writing style. I’m going to change the global structure.
I’m not giving up on writing and sharing anytime, so stay tuned for a way more clever way of writing stories I originally developed over hundreds of pages… or feel free to ignore it.
