tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88105929253380956302024-03-05T13:40:51.509-05:00Music TherapyThe workings and benefits of music and music-making.Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.comBlogger688125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-9183973107698680682021-05-04T15:51:00.001-04:002021-05-04T15:52:50.852-04:00Audience Test<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This past Saturday afternoon, May 1, we asked some family and friends to attend an open rehearsal of the <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/2021/05/pops-project.html">Pops group</a> at the Music Room. It was the first time we've had more than a dozen people at one time in over a year, and we did it to see if we could keep the air as fresh for a large group as we have for small ones.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In addition to the measures outlined <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/2021/03/reducing-covid-risk-with-co2-detector.html">in a previous post</a>, I took a third fan upstairs and placed it to blow air out of a second window; and besides propping open the front door, also opened t</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he side door part way and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the back door all the way.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We had 42 people total, and the CO2 readings were mostly in the 410 ppm to 440 ppm range, overlapping the 390 ppm to 440 ppm baseline readings I get on first entering the room after it's been unused for several days - and lower than the 450 ppm to 480 range I've been maintaining at rehearsals.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The extra fan and more open doors keeping the air fresher for total of 42 people than I had been managing for fewer than a dozen people at rehearsals was a very pleasant surprise. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The caveat to all this is that we had perfect weather conditions. The outside temperature was 70 degrees, so all the air coming in was the same as what we wanted the inside temperature to be. Back in the winter it was sometimes tough to keep the air fresh and it still warm enough to play music - this summer it might be the case that on a hot day, we won't be able to keep the inside temperature as cool as we'd like.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The other weather condition in our favor was the wind being calm to breezy and from the WSW. Since the front door faces more to the south than north, winds from the south work more easily with the ventilation flow. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is a pic is showing the CO2 detector on the newel post where I always put it so as to have comparable readings over time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2624" data-original-width="3936" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCnbTO11A4b2GdaViwFwuQbsbK1Q5g9BSAVkWZdBGxqsEzDGxvWq7HatKXXl6HszhC5DDlu-q0aeHywEnNVe4NeuxwfsjWW7SkVfsAuz-Qq3ne1FXFK3OZBCLfjolZ51TBNH_YnlzWVPmX/w400-h266/+metercorner.JPG" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="400" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And here is the other half the room where you can see how we distanced the audience.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8RtYlsTNHZBwqJKSfzhe4ycvFi9iiyIKNe3QKjKVzr9Td5JYLSuW8njXpNxxMfW4gytpMew_qQQHF_unwKS2mc_sb-XFSGTaQdH_ItDVYBKQ4hMCvc-G2Of4aLyU7doDKFBWccSYVAAo/s3936/+audience.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2624" data-original-width="3936" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8RtYlsTNHZBwqJKSfzhe4ycvFi9iiyIKNe3QKjKVzr9Td5JYLSuW8njXpNxxMfW4gytpMew_qQQHF_unwKS2mc_sb-XFSGTaQdH_ItDVYBKQ4hMCvc-G2Of4aLyU7doDKFBWccSYVAAo/w400-h266/+audience.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In trying to assess the risk of indoor gatherings, <a href="https://covid19criticalcare.com/guide-for-this-website/masks-clearing-up-the-confusion/">this article</a> lays out the variables very well. The reason being outside is safer is because,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(47, 47, 47); color: #2f2f2f;"><i>it is very difficult, if not nearly impossible, to give the virus to others outdoors via the airborne spread of tiny floating droplets because those droplets are, in most circumstances, quickly dispersed as a result of wind, air, or a person’s movement. Thus, the exhaled particle clouds get quickly diluted to the extent that there is not enough of a concentrated inoculum to infect others nearby.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(47, 47, 47); color: #2f2f2f;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(47, 47, 47);">From the same article:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(47, 47, 47); color: #2f2f2f; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(47, 47, 47); color: #2f2f2f;">T</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(47, 47, 47); color: #2f2f2f;">he four main risk factors that predict transmission within indoor spaces; Density, Duration, Dimensions, and Draft:</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(47, 47, 47); color: #2f2f2f; list-style-image: url("https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/themes/porto-child/images/list_square.gif"); margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 25px; margin-top: 10px; padding-left: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Density – # of people in the room</i></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Duration – # of hours spent in the room</i></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Dimensions – # of square feet and ceiling height of the room</i></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Draft – amount of fresh air entry/speed of air flow</i></span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'm thinking gatherings of around 60 people; with about an hour of music; being grateful for our wonderfully large, high ceilinged space; and with ventilation approximating outdoor freshness - we'll be as safe indoors as is practically possible.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-67841369319890891802021-05-04T10:53:00.000-04:002021-05-04T10:53:25.834-04:00Pops Project<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is the program for our "audience test" event at the Music Room:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTozU6r2CBv4OuyDvPMJxJXskp6LmUPLsKAAGziUoCZweVSuFP0Ewkntp7_hbja8F-EIsD4AUmPvaSFKD9lgCGGcDMaqA3Wk4dLybMI8AagnrWrOpg7_o1xsKm2xE9Apzurw9izP2k8mbn/s1125/cover.b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTozU6r2CBv4OuyDvPMJxJXskp6LmUPLsKAAGziUoCZweVSuFP0Ewkntp7_hbja8F-EIsD4AUmPvaSFKD9lgCGGcDMaqA3Wk4dLybMI8AagnrWrOpg7_o1xsKm2xE9Apzurw9izP2k8mbn/w320-h400/cover.b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbhT-5KlqEDw-V7FGjqc8e_E56oXBkZmT5K-z1Eef-OobS1jXQ6ItKiiUJi1YgJTH8OSLqsXkowof-UDZG6VHluGizAVkN8xoIVGOky2l0ykx0kvZNhyC8_x8JaRa42WtrJnJGVqJ2XAH/s1125/PopsProject.b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbhT-5KlqEDw-V7FGjqc8e_E56oXBkZmT5K-z1Eef-OobS1jXQ6ItKiiUJi1YgJTH8OSLqsXkowof-UDZG6VHluGizAVkN8xoIVGOky2l0ykx0kvZNhyC8_x8JaRa42WtrJnJGVqJ2XAH/w320-h400/PopsProject.b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiciS038ObWwtCUE6fVD-Va1wBzeNg65ODsD5E28qq8u-Bz8vmIHMw-2jLd_Pd4fLUFdv0Kja-URYvicqccLSenHWLMCJiTExtZ2rOaZgn_-6jMvqm7NHURGzaxLmu7yJ8_gz6at5c0bMqd/s1125/PopsProject2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiciS038ObWwtCUE6fVD-Va1wBzeNg65ODsD5E28qq8u-Bz8vmIHMw-2jLd_Pd4fLUFdv0Kja-URYvicqccLSenHWLMCJiTExtZ2rOaZgn_-6jMvqm7NHURGzaxLmu7yJ8_gz6at5c0bMqd/w320-h400/PopsProject2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This post lays out how we use a CO2 detector to get a handle on how well ventilated the Music Room is during rehearsals and classes.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvZfhwVx3XxdVr_p5XhXO5slFsajVJt40mecQAj8ZZbyZSIN_AvBIrFJUTEWtQVqHzOOpllZMcAbHRsFa_Y17FPB7Ogi-j0yewp2vnXJfBXkWjUA42zc3WU_Agac7ZpnfotrzBu7NJOEX/w400-h300/1917Hardware.jpeg" width="400" /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><p> The Music Room is a non-profit community learning center based in the 100 year old Gill Hardware building on East Main Street in Orange, VA. Before the pandemic we hosted a community orchestra, a string program for school age children, MusikGarten for babies and pre-schoolers, and several small music groups. When COVID hit in the spring of 2020, we shut down completely. In late October we began a soft reopening, limiting activities to about a dozen people at a time, with masking and social distancing. We also allowed only one person at a time in the general rest room area, since in that smaller space, distancing isn’t always possible.</p></span><p></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I kept seeing where outdoors was better than indoors because 1) sunshine degrades the virus and 2) lots of fresh air disperses aerosols containing COVID, which prevents high concentrations of those aerosols in the air people are breathing. While we couldn’t bring the sun inside, we could bring in fresh air.<br /><br /> The setup that works best for bringing in fresh air has two components. The first is to have two industrial fans upstairs. One at the top of the stairs blowing air from the downstairs into the upstairs, </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCelqWiTaLhgOy8te-5k1Q3fFWmBSUhzcA1xi0X6JYqVui_Vu8_abG5YEkdSGxl83z0aZTsVXjSTxMiNjL3VSJl7_2fXazxoJpStH2hcOcjko93L2yu_gxvgGlCAt_7x1s5OlvQN6AHVzc/w400-h300/door+fan.jpeg" width="400" /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">and another blowing air out one of the windows on one or the other side of the building, depending on the wind direction outside. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaAh_8FvfLpN6v6zL8Pz5Ha2p4Xtyej-hEKQ7ZesYqHbzUJMvEhAKw9-OxcQSUAvU_2bu_f8taONv1Ja7kBUfdHM-mRMEvp_CqVgDLzvsqdHyYlhkajhqtPBeJj6tClFAmiF_yEU-UUeIA/w300-h400/exit+fan.jpeg" width="300" /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The second component is to prop open the front door, which is at the opposite end of the main room from the stairs. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEildLeGj8r0w8L-GGSc9mCKzMj45ZuFgtqRqH9U0mPJpcnXnVUmB1sp2lvw5VHWf1yyRla3_8PNtLciyNFExxzNM1cseCU13d8E-HfxuiUPmIbX4oitOuGwzbtgMopU1PIVO7RwKfV7yY62/s2048/open+door.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEildLeGj8r0w8L-GGSc9mCKzMj45ZuFgtqRqH9U0mPJpcnXnVUmB1sp2lvw5VHWf1yyRla3_8PNtLciyNFExxzNM1cseCU13d8E-HfxuiUPmIbX4oitOuGwzbtgMopU1PIVO7RwKfV7yY62/w300-h400/open+door.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br />The result is a constant flow of fresh air down the length of the room. This photo was taken just inside the front door, where the air enters, looking towards the stairs, where the air exits.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1DRUk16XqNMH_95IZbsoQ2cmMArDCG_qKAnTYYMxKteaOxi6Uq8v_1_p1W6kU_E8NCMmLibkozSMmPlLJ6h_zdk92oDTAYiOdadB6t2USaF9_rXYZCn2EIRuWmzKOePVaE0w3n05O5V2/w400-h300/front+to+stairs.jpeg" width="400" /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">At first I let in as much air as possible while keeping the room warm enough to make music. Then in early November, <a href="https://www.thevibes.com/articles/sports/5774/gym-trainer-exposed-50-athletes-to-covid-19-but-none-got-sick" target="_blank">this article popped up</a>. A trainer at a gym tested positive after he had worked with over fifty athletes over the course of a week – and none of them got the virus – and good ventilation at the gym was posited as the reason. The article recommended getting a CO2 detector to gauge the freshness of the air. The less CO2 in the air from exhalations, the less the chance of inhaling viral aerosols.<br /><br /> I immediately ordered <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KTJL6OK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">this CO2 detector</a> and have used it at the Music Room for every gathering since then.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4K_lpP0k_5HlWR6bfck5fMU6CDMGlAWWaHymklUZdMj4ac5H4TeCztQNJBzxTeM6tWGk6tyVo_BExkOWSMa26C6V4KATgUT15oRPU2jm-03WSnXQtLwg_cx5Qktmkq1uWnfBSGK1tpP8S/w300-h400/detector.jpeg" width="300" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The photo below shows the detector on the newel post of the stairs and the chair where I usually sit to keep an eye on it during gatherings. </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHJkHBDux9rh8GHxYuJcNrkshZyTHrbNZED7uJfJcxR4h2GngrZ6VtITuKSAemYp85y_ya6KhwO_kvvfa7gbgu3dbstjsW_zQsGx2mimdbozOlhA5qsGa5ZrLYFhodQ1l_AAYLOGU8WXgh/w400-h300/stairs+stage.jpeg" width="400" /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Back in November, when I first entered the room after it being unused for several days, the CO2 level was usually around 440 parts per million. During gatherings it would rise, and by adjusting how open the front door was, I could usually keep the level around 465 ppm to 480 ppm. Every so often, probably due to wind shifts outside, it would rise to 500, and I'd just open the door more to bring the level back down.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> In January and February, the baseline level I'd find on entry went as low as 390 ppm, and more usually in the 400 ppm to 415 ppm range. There was a correlation between strong winds from any direction and lower CO2 readings. When the baseline reading was lower, it was possible to keep the occupied readings lower as well - in the 445 ppm to 465 ppm range. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Having figured out what the best I could do was, I went online to see what others might be doing. Interestingly, searches on ventilation returned no hits from public health authorities like the CDC, FDA, or WHO. All these quotes below come from academics and businesses:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">"<a href="https://inspectapedia.com/hazmat/CO2_Typical_Levels.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Carbon dioxide CO</span><sub style="font-family: ArialMT;">2</sub></a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><a href="https://inspectapedia.com/hazmat/CO2_Typical_Levels.php" target="_blank"> levels outdoors </a>near ground level are typically 300 ppm to 400 ppm or 0.03% to 0.040% in concentration.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Carbon dioxide CO</span><sub style="font-family: ArialMT;">2</sub><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> levels indoors in occupied buildings are typically around 600 ppm to 800 ppm or 0.06% to 0.08% in concentration. You'll find this data in many indoor air quality articles and books and it's consistent with what we find typically in our own field measurements.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Carbon dioxide CO</span><sub style="font-family: ArialMT;">2</sub><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> levels indoors in an inadequately vented space with heavy occupation is often measured around 1000 ppm or 0.10% in concentration. I have measured levels around 1200 ppm in occupied basement offices in a hospital where the staff worked in an area which had no decent fresh air intake into their ventilation system."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">* * * * *</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><a href="Miller cites a 2019 study on a tuberculosis outbreak in Taipei University, Taiwan, where many rooms were poorly ventilated and reached CO2 levels above 3,000 parts per million (ppm). When engineers brought levels down to under 600 ppm the outbreak stopped. “According to the research, the increase in ventilation was responsible for 97% of the decrease in transmission,” said Miller, before going on to recommend a CO2 target of 600 ppm." target="_blank">Miller cites a 2019 study</a> on a tuberculosis outbreak in Taipei University, Taiwan, where many rooms were poorly ventilated and reached CO2 levels above 3,000 parts per million (ppm). When engineers brought levels down to under 600 ppm the outbreak stopped. “According to the research, the increase in ventilation was responsible for 97% of the decrease in transmission,” said Miller, before going on to recommend a CO2 target of 600 ppm. . . . </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">. . . . Prof John Wenger, director of the Centre for Research into Atmospheric Chemistry in UCC suggests a target of 1,000 ppm if CO2 is being used as a proxy for Covid in classrooms, and argues that room level transmission is “the key. It’s in the air, and it can fill a room. The amount of the virus in the air can accumulate, and we get an increased exposure. If you’re indoors, in a poorly ventilated room for a long time, then you’re at quite a high risk even if you’re distanced, because the air moves around.”</span></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: large;">* * * * * </span></span></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-family: ArialMT; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">"<a href="https://www.epatientdave.com/2021/01/23/ventilation-for-covid-19-defense-part-2-co₂-and-new-warnings/">Given clean background air</a> (no motor vehicles) CO</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">₂</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> is about 400 ppm and exhaled breath is 4% (40,000 ppm). The rest is mass balance algebra. . . .</span></span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-family: ArialMT; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. . . . An indoor CO</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">₂</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> level of 5000 ppm (the OSHA standard for workplaces) would mean that 11% of what you inhale has passed through someone’s lungs. An indoor CO</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">₂</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> level of 700 ppm (a non mandatory design standard) means that 0.7% of your inhalation is recycled exhalation."</span></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #343434; font-family: ArialMT; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #343434; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;">Based on these bits of context, we seem to be doing as well as we can at the Music Room. As I write this, the latest edict from the state of Virginia increases the limit on indoor group sizes from 10 to 50. Between that and the number of people </span><span style="color: #343434; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;">vaccinated, the next step will be to see how to go about having small audiences for open rehearsals or recitals. My hope is the the warmer weather will allow letting in more <span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52);">fresh air to keep the CO2 levels down with the higher number of people. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #343434; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #343434; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52);"><i><a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/2021/05/audience-test.html">Followup post here</a></i>.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></div>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-18663194643598803642020-02-03T17:02:00.000-05:002020-02-05T09:23:14.409-05:002019 Christmas Singalong<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some pics from the singalong we had at the Music Room this past December. It was quite a milestone for me. We combined some members the Fun Band with some members of the Rapidan Pops, creating for the event the largest and most expert group of musicians I've ever led. As for the singers, I've led larger groups, but never so many experienced singers - even though the singers only had lyrics with no music - and all the hymn tunes were transposed down a couple or three steps - there was often four part harmony in the voices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also in this pic you can see how we seated some of the singalongers right behind the strings. The gentleman right there in the bottom left hand corner is Al, without whom the Music Room wouldn't exist. Besides starting the Orange community chorus and band, he somehow got me to join the band, which is where I learned to play the horn from a standing start, which later led to playing in the Rapidan Orchestra, and the orchestra needing a rehearsal performance space had a lot to do with the Music Room coming into existence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this pic you can see our friend Sara sitting to the right of Judy and Dale. Besides having been a member of the Orange Music Society and then starting the Culpeper Music Society, she was the one who first started the Shakespeare in the Ruins outdoor productions over in Barboursville. She had a great time and with both her and Al participating there was a wonderful feeling of solidarity with previous community performing arts projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can see the lights have been changed, that risers have been added in front of the stage - and that curtains have been added, which did a great job of damping the too bright sound. With the curtains, and a lot of people in the audience soaking up sound, most people think the sound is exceptionally good. Back when Rapidan first started rehearsing in the Music Room, conductor Benjamin said after just a couple of rehearsals we were playing better because we could hear each other better.</span>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-25035457239946224182020-01-07T13:20:00.001-05:002023-05-05T20:15:11.602-04:00How We Receive Music<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> As we’ve gotten the Music Room up and running this year, what has struck me most has been the audience reactions. Because it’s a very comfortable space with sparkling acoustics, the audience experience is about as good as it gets aurally and socially. At intermission and after the music, people are physically and verbally animated; there are lots of wide eyes, hand gesturings and animated conversations. I always ask as many people as I can what it is they like, and the answers are all over the board. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> Back in the 60’s I came across Karl Jung’s idea that there are four ways of experiencing the world around us - via thinking, via sensation, via feeling, and via intuition. A recent FaceBook conversation with <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/search/label/Gann">Kyle Gann</a> catalyzed my realizing those four modes are a great way to talk about how different people receive music, and that since we all have different combinations of these four modes of experiencing music, it goes a long way towards explaining why so may different kinds of music can have such ardent fans.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">THINKING - “Theory mind” is the term I use for people who can distinguish instantly between major, minor, diminished and augmented chords and whether they have added pitches like 2nds, 4ths, 6ths, 9ths, 11ths and so on. Theory mind can also hear and name the chord functions in real time, such as the I chord leading to the IV chord, to the vi chord. When modulations occur, they can say what the new key is and how the chords in the previous key were manipulated to prepare the ear for that modulation. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Part of Kyle Gann’s FB comment that triggered this post illustrates theory mind:</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i>The other day a cultured woman with a little musical knowledge asked me what I thought made Schumann's music so wonderful. I went into my spiel about his diagonal harmonies, how he'll hit a dissonant note and not resolve it until the chord meant to harmonize the resolution has already passed, and also about how unusual the spacings of his piano sonorities are.</i></span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">SENSATION - I think one of the reasons the live performances at the Music Room so affect people is that they’re simply hearing the various timbres of the instruments much more fully than what recordings can ever capture, especially if those recordings are compressed down to mp3 levels. Even audience members sitting in the back are quite close to the performers, and the very good acoustics make the aural sensations immediate and fully textured. This means the fast/slow; high/low; and soft/loud parameters of the music are easily perceived. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">FEELING - One way music “touches” us is that it often encodes physical gestures that trigger our emotions. Most straightforwardly, when we see a violinist caressing notes out of their instrument or a timpanist pounding out a martial rhythm, we feel the emotions we associate with those gestures. The neural pathway for this phenomenon employs mirror neurons. When we see someone making a physical gesture, our brain fires the neurons we’d use to make that same gesture (more <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/search?q=mirror+neurons">here</a>). I also think, with zero proof, that just hearing some gestures in music can trigger mirror neurons, even if we can't see the performer making the physical gesture. Less straightforwardly, while phrasings and articulations in music may not have direct physical cognates, they can evoke less specific feelings and moods.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Also, a piece of music can call up emotions we’ve come to associate with that particular piece because of when and where we’ve heard it before. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">INTUITION - Intuition is non-verbal and non-rational by nature, so it’s hard to talk about. I’ve been told professionally I’m more intuitive than most, and while it’s a great help to me as a group therapist, the problem is that I can’t know right away if my intuition about something is correct. With that caveat in mind, I’ll suggest that one way intuition may come into play is those of us without “theory mind” can still intuit the general structure of a piece. I think our intuitive side can also inform us as to how the performers are approaching the music and their connection to the audience. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Our intuitive sides are probably also part of whatever it is that happens during “flow” experiences when our normal ego fades, time flows differently, and we feel part of a larger whole (more <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/2009/10/flow.html">here</a>).</span>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-72359871536089354602019-11-27T09:32:00.000-05:002019-11-27T09:32:21.936-05:00Concert Thoughts<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Rapidan Orchestra just completed its 5th season with two concerts (at St. Stephen’s in Culpeper and at the Music Room in Orange) and I want to jot down some thoughts before they get lost in the Christmas rush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The program - Egmont overture, Carmen Suite 1 plus the Habañera from Suite 2, and Mozart #40 - was the most substantial we’ve ever done, and we played well. A number of musicians told me how much they’d enjoyed playing and the audiences were very responsive and appreciative.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The St. Stephen’s parish hall space is small and T shaped, which makes the sound very bright and clear. We set up a little differently than in the past, and part of that was moving me from the far left of the stage to just to the right of the center of the stage. The difference for me was enormous - I’ve never heard the woodwinds so well and so well balanced. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several of the audience members there used the word “loud”, so I think in the future we need to dial back the volume. That space would be great for chamber music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the Music Room in Orange we had the largest audience ever - 140 people plus or minus. I heard later that one audience member was a young girl who conducted enthusiastically the entire time, and apparently everyone around her enjoyed it. There were other children scattered through the audience as well - some from the string program and others the siblings of one of our players. There was gentleman who snored off and on. There were three elderly people in the back no one knew, but who seemed to be very well versed in the particular music on the program, and to all appearances had a wonderful time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I asked a family member who has very little experience with classical music what she liked most she said, without missing a beat, “the last one”, i.e. the Mozart. When I asked why, she said because it was so “animated”. That we played the Mozart well enough for his essential spirit to come through feels like real success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In short, a wonderfully diverse audience enjoying this great music together in a relaxed way - exactly the kind of unstuffy experience I’d hoped the Music Room could offer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At intermission, there was an eruption of conversation throughout the room, which made me realize how valuable the Music Room is as a community space over and above being just a music space. The music drew us together and provided the opportunity for everyone to enjoy each others company. That Karla has put so much effort into making the space such a pleasant one amplifies that experience. Benjamin had thought about not having an intermission and asked us what we thought. Since the oboe section, with the tacit support of the horn section, became vaguely mutinous at the thought of that much playing without rest, he went ahead with having it and I’m glad he did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was born in Orange County seventy years ago, so know it fairly well. I still have trouble believing we have a successful orchestra. One woman, Heather our lead clarinet, has done more than anyone else to make it happen. And because the orchestra needed a better venue, Karla had the idea of the Music Room and here we are. There’s no telling exactly where all this leads, but it feels like we’re on the right track.</span><br />
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Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-77555002466111273182019-11-27T09:19:00.000-05:002019-11-27T09:21:11.022-05:00Open Rehearsal Pics<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back in October</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> we had a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">n open rehearsal of the Rapidan Orchestra and I asked my niece Carmon to take some pictures without using flash. These two show the general setup in the Music Room for Rapidan rehearsals.</span><br />
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Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-64685664796796531582019-10-01T11:35:00.003-04:002019-10-01T11:35:56.328-04:00Street Festival '19 / Drum Circle<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Benjamin Bergey, the conductor of the Rapidan Orchestra, got his doctorate in music at JMU, and the subject of his thesis was "Music and Peacebuilding", the idea being to bring people together through music making. One way to do that is Drum Circles and he leads some at the Music Room from time to time, including at the street festival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-67723928504958650562019-09-30T20:30:00.000-04:002019-09-30T20:30:30.800-04:00Street Festival '19 / Kenwood Players<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Kenwood Players did two sets at the Street Festival. Here's a shot of the whole group, from left to right, Joe T, Steve, Gary, Dick, Joe B, Maggie, Michael, and me. Gary on drums is new to the area, and Joe B on bass has been around for decades playing in all sorts of groups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dick on trumpet and his wife Maggie on clarinet are the heart and soul of the group, doing all the organizational work, finding the music to play, and willing to drive great distances from visiting family in Northern Virginia to get to rehearsals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Steve on trombone in the pic below, is a cousin, and his sound helped me immensely when I was learning the French horn. He can play brassy and "dirty" when it's called for, but he can also make a sound so sweet and full, you forget it's a brass instrument. Michael on the right is simply amazing on the sax. Whenever he launches into a solo, I automatically start grinning because of the good feeling he brings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here I am trying to keep up on banjo. Everyone else in the group is a seasoned pro, but I came to playing Dixieland very late. On the one hand it's the musical genre that seems the most universally successful in raising people's mood. On the other, it's quite difficult! I had never bothered with augmented and diminished chords before Dixieland, and all the chords come at an amazingly fast pace.</span></div>
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Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-58894069234171117492019-09-27T11:32:00.000-04:002019-09-27T20:41:27.848-04:00Street Festival '19 / Pops<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also had two Rapidan Pops performances at the street festival - one following the <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/2019/09/street-festival-19-fun-band.html">Fun Band</a> under the tent and another at the end of the afternoon inside the Music Room. The Pops books contain things I've been working on going back to the '90s - tunes from Handel's <i>Water Music</i> that have just three or four voices. Since then I've added some early Americana put together for a performance over at Montpelier years ago, along with some movie and TV themes from the 60's and 70's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The performance under the tent was limited to just ten players because that's all we could comfortably fit. Here's a pic of that group from behind me looking down towards the railroad tracks. You can see all the mics and the mixer I'd set up. The idea was to test using sound equipment to try making outdoor performance by strings feasible, and it worked pretty well</span><br />
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Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-89121700363263631022019-09-26T13:11:00.000-04:002019-09-26T13:11:01.831-04:00Street Festival '19 / Fun Band<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The town of Orange has a Street Festival the first Saturday every September and this year the Music Room had a number of associated activities. Some were under a tent outside in front of the building and others were inside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first event was the Fun Band, which is a group we've had meeting for number of years. We're all retired, play various instruments in various other groups, and use books I've put together of mostly traditional, pop, and hymn tunes. Our most frequent performance venue is the local nursing home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That isn't a subject I would dare write about. I do think the article you post is the only way to go about it: a heterogeneous list of overlapping reasons. To ask "What is music?," or "What is the essence of music?," is a time-wasting dead end - language just doesn't work that way. I used to theorize about stuff like that a lot when I was young, and I was very facile at it, but my theories always crashed into reality and burned. So what I learned is that theories are very easy to spin.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I have noticed that sometimes my music seemed to reflect my own neuroses, and that I could solve a psychological problem in my music as a prelude to solving it in my life. I think art's capacity as self-therapy needs some more study. And I compose mostly because I find it an enjoyable thing to do. Part of the enjoyment for me, though, is the anticipation of people listening to it or playing it, and now that I no longer anticipate that happening, a certain resentment turns on when I start to compose and I can't enjoy it anymore. Thus the hiatus.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thanks so much for taking the time for that reply - lots to think about. Your, "my music seemed to reflect my own neuroses", reminds me that sometimes on hearing my music played I realize I'm putting my unconscious on public display, but since I'm the only one who can really decode it I'm safe ;-) I'm going at the performance issue by participating in the playing and writing for friends who like my stuff. As for "art's capacity as self-therapy" - working as music therapist with others have found that simply the act of expressing one's self musically helps people feel better - and I think that's why I write music, to express things I haven't found in other people's music - and hoping it will resonate with an audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"I'm putting my unconscious on public display, but since I'm the only one who can really decode it I'm safe" - that's a good line. Kind of sums it all up.😄</i></span>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-88955346264650273092019-07-30T17:35:00.003-04:002019-07-30T17:35:27.558-04:00What Is Music For?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I found Peter and his blog <a href="http://vukutu.com/blog/">Vukutu</a> down in the comment section of Kyle Gann's blog <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/">PostClassic </a>years ago. Peter hasn't posted in a while and Vukutu may go away, so I want to save this post of his:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>These seem to me fundamental questions in any discussion about (say) the public funding of music performances and music education, or (say) the apparent lack of knowledge that some people in Britain have about some types of music, or (say) how to increase audiences for particular types of music. But no-one seems to debate these questions, or even to raise them. As a result, there seems to be little awareness that aims and purposes may vary, both across cultures, and over time. (I am reminded of Alfred Gell’s anthropological theory of art which understands art as the creation of objects liable to be perceived by their audience as objects with intentionality, that is, objects carrying some purpose.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To entertain, to give pleasure.</u> The pleasure may arise from the sounds themselves (e.g., elements such as the sound qualities, the melodies, the harmonies, the overtones, the timbres, the beat, the rhythms, the combinations or interplay of the various elements), or the performance of the music (the skills of the performers may provide pleasure), or the construction of the music (e.g., repetition or novelty, contrapuntalism or other structural features, the composition or improvisation techniques evident to a listener), or allusions to other sounds and music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To express some emotion or mood in the composer/writer, or in the performer.</u> Indeed, music may be a form of encrypted communication, with messages able to be understood by the target audience but not by any others who hear it. According to Larry Todd, Fanny Mendelssohn wrote lieder (art-songs) to communicate to Wilhelm Hensel her feelings about him; he was later to become her husband, but at this time her parents had forbidden them to meet or to write to one another, even on occasion intercepting a letter he had had written against this order.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To evoke some emotion or mood in the listener.</u> The sturm-und-drang movement in the mid-18th century, for example, led symphony writers to imitate thunderstorms and other effects, often seeking to frighten or surprise listeners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To express solidarity and communality, whether by performers or by listeners.</u> See, for instance, Mark Evan Bonds’ great book on how Beethoven’s symphonies were perceived by their audience as expressions of, and occasions for, communality. John Miller Chernoff’s observation that African people express their opinion of a musical performance by joining in (themselves performing, singing, beating time, or dancing) is an example of this particular aesthetic of music. Other examples include the playing of the US national anthem at the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, London, on 13 September 2001, and the programming of music by American composers for the Last Night of the Proms in London that same week, both acts of solidarity with the USA after the 9/11 attacks. Given the fact that the US had to fight a war against the British crown to achieve Independence, and indeed had fought a subsequent war with Britain, these were very strong statements of solidarity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To inspire listeners to action, as, for example, with the music of the 19th century nationalists such as Verdi, Chopin, Dvorak, Smetana, Sibelius, Hill, etc.</u> Such nationalist aesthetics may be very powerful: The white minority regime in South Africa, for example, banned the singing of the hymn, Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika (“God Bless Africa”), because of its association with the movement for majority rule. (The hymn is now the national anthem of South Africa.) Similarly, although Japan’s illegal military occupation of Korea ended in 1945 and both countries are now democracies, Japanese pop music is still banned in the ROK (South Korea).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To induce altered mental states in listeners, for example, as an aid to entering a trance or to prepare them for some other spiritual experience.</u> In words of Indian musician Gita Sarabhai (1922-2011) that influenced John Cage, for example, music’s function is “to sober and quiet the mind, thus rendering it susceptible to divine influences.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To facilitate some other activity, such as dancing, singing or the recital of poetry.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To think.</u> Contrapuntal music, in the North German tradition that reached its peak in the middle of the 18th century, used fugal writing as a way of articulating the possible mathematical manipulations (e.g. overlay, delay, inversion, reversion) of the theme. Similarly, the tradition of western art music from the mid 18th century through to the present day has focused on the articulation of the musical consequences of a theme or motif. Beethoven, who was never very good at melody-making, was perhaps the best composer ever at development, with Mendelssohn a close second. Chopin, by contrast, was good with melodies, but not at complex development. The development of musical material during improvised performances of modern jazz, of Indian ragas, or of Balinese gamelan scales are further examples. Likewise, much minimalist music forces performer and listener to pay careful mental attention to aspects of music ignored in the dominant uptown tradition, such as rhythm and meter, and how these vary, concatenate and interleave with one another. Similarly, the focus, particularly by composers in the American experimental tradition this last 100 years (e.g. Cowell, Varese, Cage), on the materiality of sounds is another form of thinking; it is the intelligent exploration of the features of sounds and sound-generating mechanisms, and the consequences of these features.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To facilitate thinking.</u> I have a computer scientist friend whose attempts to prove mathematical theorems is greatly enhanced if he listens to Bach fugues while doing so. Likewise, many large corporations transmit low-decibel, high-frequency white noise through their office speaker systems to facilitate work in open-plan offices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To come to know oneself.</u> Using music (or any form of human expression) as a form of thinking, one learns about oneself: how one thinks, about what one is thinking or obsessing, and what one perceives. Many visual artists draw or paint to know themselves better, with the resulting drawing or painting a mere by-product of the process. The same is true of musicians and composers and listeners, and it is why people may be drawn to life as a musician (or artist) despite the consequences. (I am grateful to conversations with Patricia Cain for this insight.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To pray.</u> Much western religious music is expressed in a form of supplication or worship to a deity. Composing, performing or listening to music may also be understood as acts of piety in themselves, akin to the copying out of sacred texts which some religions, for example, Nichiren Shu Buddhism, consider to be pious actions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To channel messages from the spirit world, as Zimbabwean mbira players are aiming to do when playing. </u>Jazz pianist Craig Taborn has said that he believes “creative endeavors are informed by the interaction with metaphysical forces” and that “Music functions as a means to ‘call down’ those spirits [the spirits of the black improvisational music tradition], so in a very real sense I am not doing anything when the music is truly being made. It isn’t really me doing it.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><u>To communicate with non-material (ie, spirit) realms. </u>Much prayer, indeed, perhaps the overwhelming majority, is not intended to be entreaty or worship of a deity, but communion with spiritual entities. Music can be a form of such communion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mark Evan Bonds [2006]: Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">John Miller Chernoff [1979]: African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kyle Gann [2006]: Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice. University of California Press.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alfred Gell [1998]: Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.</span><br />
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<br />Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-5986965055893548362018-09-19T11:17:00.000-04:002018-09-19T11:17:31.101-04:00Musikgarten at the Music Room<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A cellist with the Rapidan Orchestra has experience with the <a href="https://www.musikgarten.org/aboutus.cfm">Musikgarten</a> organization, and has started classes in the Music Room. Here are some pics:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The audience response was, if anything, even more enthusiastic than the full orchestra concert last April. Three reasons I think why are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) - The acoustics are very live and you can hear all the instruments well. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) - The full lighting helps the audience feel more a part of what the musicians are doing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3) - A number of people in the audience I've known all my life, and I think we as a group are pleasantly, but very, surprised something like this is happening in Orange.</span></span>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-68492467813646055512018-04-29T10:13:00.001-04:002018-09-20T15:34:09.924-04:00Opening Night at the Music Room<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back on 4/13/18 the Rapidan Orchestra played to a full house at the <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Music%20Room">Music Room</a>. It was the first time the Music Room was open to the public, and there were a lot of "old Orange" people (that I've known since being a child) who came to hear the music, but also to see what's happening with the old Gill Hardware building there on Main Street. Even before the music started there was a pleasant buzz of energy in the room as people greeted old and new friends and looked around to see how the inside of the building has been transformed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That night and in the days following, the most heard comments from the audience were the wonderment of hearing live music like this in Orange and how well played it was. The most frequent comment from the musicians was the incredible sense of connection between us and the audience - I used the word "electric" and our conductor used the word "palpable".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For me the empirical indicator of that connection was when and how the applause began after each piece. Between the conductor and the players there's a sense of the exact moment a piece ends, and sometimes audiences will applaud a bit before or after that moment. That night it felt to me the applause began in the nanosecond the music ended. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the applause felt as though it was erupting from the audience, that they'd been so connected to the music, when it ended they were responding in a way that was in part non-conscious and very enthusiastic. Sometimes applause can sound duty driven, but there was none of that I could hear. I have to say the only times before this I've performed and felt audiences that revved up and connected to the music was when I was playing banjo.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the variables that contributed to all this:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 - Set and setting - a lot of people there were very happy to see the old building put to new use for the community and were in a good frame of mind to begin with.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3 - Robert Carlson the piano soloist, though only a sophomore(!) in college, absolutely wowed the crowd and orchestra with his playing of the Beethoven.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4 - The acoustics of the space are really good. There's a real clarity to the sound, and you can hear everything going on very well (which is one reason Rapidan is playing better - we can hear each other so well in the Music Room). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5 - Though it's a fairly large space, the audience sits very close to the musicians, and I think that enhances the connection - the audience essentially shares the same space as the musicians, as opposed to being off in the distance, with the musicians up on a stage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6 - We haven't done anything to the lighting, so the whole room was fully lit, rather that the orchestra under bright lights and the audience sitting in the dark. My sense is that amplified the feeling of us all being together enjoying each other's company, and not the us/them feeling large halls and theatric lighting fosters.</span></span>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-75817785892937534452018-04-19T21:58:00.001-04:002018-09-20T15:34:24.762-04:00News Story on the Music Room<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.dailyprogress.com/orangenews/gallery/a-musical-movement-on-main-street-rapidan-orchestra-concert-opens/collection_015b7000-433d-11e8-8e4a-674931b32ccb.html#15">This link will take you </a>to a story in our local paper - the Orange County Review - on opening night at the Music Room. Thanks so much to Jeff Poole for the pics and the story.</span>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-19408259897343099372018-04-17T21:48:00.000-04:002018-09-20T15:34:37.742-04:00Music & Peacebuilding<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here's Benjamin Bergey's lecture/recital for his doctorate at JMU that I got to participate in. I sat right in front of the soloists and got caught up in the flow of their singing and Benjamin's conducting. It was one of the most moving musical experiences I've ever had. He started the music at the 31 minute mark with an audience singalong. To get full screen start the video and then click the box in the lower right hand corner.</span><br />
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<br />Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-1856417289035997472018-04-17T12:30:00.000-04:002018-09-20T15:36:46.836-04:00Opening Night Pics<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This past Friday night we had a performance by the Rapidan Orchestra at the Music Room, and, courtesy of Jeff Poole of the </span><a href="http://www.dailyprogress.com/orangenews/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orange County Review</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, here are some pictures of our first public event.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before things got underway, Rapidan conductor Benjamin Bergey thanked Karla for all she's done to make the Music Room a reality. As Benjamin said, the Music Room is the new home of the Rapidan Orchestra, as we'll be rehearsing and performing there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here's a shot from rear of the room. Besides the audience members seen, there are others sitting to the right of the large opening into the reception area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This shot shows the back of the room, and one the ladders along the wall dating from when the building was a hardware store with floor to ceiling shelves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some pics of the orchestra and Benjamin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some pics of our soloist for this concert, Robert Carlson.</span><br />
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<br />Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-19479316688496863782018-04-16T07:40:00.000-04:002018-09-20T15:37:28.577-04:00Music Room blurb #1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here's the text of a little info sheet we gave out at the Rapidan Orchestra performance at the Music Room this past Friday:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We are a non-profit looking to encourage more live music making in our community by providing space for groups to learn, rehearse and perform acoustic (non-amplified) music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Just last month we received our “Certificate of Occupancy” allowing us to invite the public in, and this performance by the Rapidan Orchestra is our first major event. Thanks for coming!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> To start with we’ll be doing just classical and traditional music. Venues are responsible for paying fees for performing rights of copyrighted music (anything written after 1923) to three different organizations and we’re sorting through whether or not the red tape and expense are worth it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We’ve set up with the orchestra’s back to the front door for acoustic reasons. That stairway with its landing/alcove at the top creates odd acoustic effects. After we hear what the orchestra sounds like with an audience in the room, we’ll move forward on acoustic treatments that we hope will allow us to set up at either end of the space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We’re in what we’re calling “phase one” of the Music Room – getting enough done to be able to start using the space, and from there figuring out the best way forward. Besides acoustic treatment of the main room, we want to spruce up the reception area and create a library of books on music and musicians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We hope to host various classes and amateur groups, the first of which is being organized by Caroline Baldwin, who plays cello in Rapidan.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Musikgarten is a leader in early childhood music education offering a sequential music and movement program for children from birth to age nine. This complete multi-year educational program helps infants, toddlers, and children develop a deep love of music and the ability to express it. Classes include age appropriate activities that cultivate a life-long love of music and stimulate the overall development of the child. In addition to weekly classes, families receive wonderful CDs of the songs sung in class, instruments, and parent guidebooks. These home materials reinforce lessons and involve the whole family in the fun. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We’re looking to organize other groups as well, so if you play an instrument at a beginner or intermediate level and want to be kept informed, please let us know via the contact information on the back page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We’ll be hosting a few chamber concerts from time to time to showcase some of the fine musicians we’re lucky to have in the area. We’d also like to try some master classes and demonstration/lectures to see if the community might find them interesting. Until we have a web site in place, we’ll be sending out occasional announcements of activities to anyone letting us know they’d like to receive them.</span></div>
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Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-88608947859742915222018-04-15T15:17:00.000-04:002018-04-15T15:17:54.904-04:00Rapidan Program Notes<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RapidanOrchestra/posts/1865178073534043">Here's a link to </a>the FaceBook page where I posted images of the program notes for our recent Rapidan Orchestra concert. </span>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-21667732860643564862018-04-15T15:10:00.000-04:002018-04-15T15:10:53.508-04:00Why Live Music<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/2018/03/why-acoustic-music.html">the previous post</a> I talked about some advantages of acoustic music over amplified music, and in this one want to talk a little about live music versus recorded music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the things the neuroscientists often say about what pulls the listener into the music is the unexpected. While we like some sense of structure to give us context, if there are no surprises along the way, we become bored. The thing about recorded music is that once you've heard it, it never changes. The first time or two I hear one of Glenn Gould's immaculately edited, so as to be error free, recordings of Bach, I'm amazed. On subsequent listenings, though, the some of the magic slips away. I often use the word "fresh" for music that I like, and recorded music can never sound fresh on repeated listenings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Live performances usually mean finger slips along the way, but they also mean that you'll never hear that piece of music played that way ever again, and that in itself adds excitement. Over the years I've noticed some classical critics will point out errors in a performance, while going on to say that's what you get with live performance, and that even with an error here and there, live music is more moving to the listener than recordings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another thing about live performance is that the audience makes a difference. Years I ago came across <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/2009/06/audience-participation.html">this quote by Hilary Hahn:</a></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.649999618530273px;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">he problem is that acoustic performers rely on the audience's attention and focus and can tell when the audience isn't mentally present. Your listening is part of our interpretive process. If you're not really listening, we're not getting the feedback of energy from the hall, and then we might as well be practicing for a bunch of people peering in the window. It's just not as interesting when the cycle of interpretation is broken.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">Another aspect of watching live performance is the triggering of <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/search?q=mirror+neurons">mirror neurons</a>. When we see the physical gestures musicians make, we "feel" those motions in ourselves, and often associate emotions with those gestures. </span><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></i>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-10608134718307129722018-03-31T11:10:00.000-04:002018-04-01T08:17:16.671-04:00Why Acoustic Music<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">We're thinking of keeping the music at the Music Room mostly acoustic for a number of reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Any time music goes through any kind of microphone / amplifier / speaker, something is lost. Sound waves produced by musical instruments have much more depth and complexity than electronics can ever capture. It's also the case that the electronics change what they do pick up, making some things louder and others softer. Live acoustic performances will always have richer and more natural sound colors than recorded or amplified music can ever achieve. With so many people now listening to music with earbuds and very low-fi mp3 computer files, we're thinking a niche might be opening up for experiencing music as it has been through all of human existence until the 20th century.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Amplification can be very helpful for quieter instruments and for allowing people to sing without yelling and still be heard over the accompaniment. But it's also the case that a lot of musicians who use amplification develop tolerances to how loud they are, and what to them sounds like a good level of volume, can seem assaultive to people not used to being around that much sound. A number of times over the years I've noticed people entering a room and having a very visible and very visceral negative reaction upon seeing sound equipment set up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* The acoustics of the Music Room are amazing. I have never been able to sing so softly with a guitar and be so clearly heard throughout a space. Our sound consultant remarked that the slap echo time is around two seconds, which is comparable to a large church. If anything, we'll have to do acoustic treatments to make the room less alive, and even then any sort of amplification would probably create unpleasant effects, along with way too much sound.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* We want to be good neighbors. Over the past several years a number of wedding venues have popped up around Orange County, and some of them feel entitled to degrading the quality of life of their neighbors with amplified bands and DJs creating a low frequency throbbing for anywhere from a half mile to a mile radius, depending on the humidity. Community building is a major part of what we want to do with the Music Room, so creating ill will with neighbors isn't a good fit.</span></span><br />
<br />Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810592925338095630.post-43080518287331465812017-12-27T11:18:00.000-05:002017-12-27T11:18:31.785-05:00Composer's Diary<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following up on these two <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/2017/11/composers-diary.html">previous</a> <a href="https://registeredmusictherapist.blogspot.com/2017/12/roger-sessions-on-gesture.html">posts</a>, I've had a chance to talk with three of the people who told me they found my music very moving - a cousin who is practically a brother, a nephew-in-law, and a close friend from college days (50 years ago!). They all listen to a lot of music, but as a rule, not a lot of "classical" music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two used the word "accessible" in describing my music, and that's about the highest compliment I can get, as that's probably the number one thing I'm going for when writing music. In music therapy step one is engaging the client. If you don't get that done, nothing else you do matters. So in composing I want the music to be something the audience can immediately enjoy and be interested in, which is just another way of saying "accessible".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They all mentioned the fact that their knowing me had a big effect. One said he thought that knowing I was the one who wrote the music got him to listen more closely than he might have. Another said it was the fact that he knew someone who could compose music like that was what moved him even more than the music itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other feedback which is interesting is that the second movement of one piece is a total standout of all I've written. It was written for a friend who witnessed the firebombing of Dresden as a small child, and is one of the few things I've written that was meant to convey a particular feeling, in this case that of a lament or requiem. What's interesting is that while she feels it does that wonderfully well, my cousin, who has bird dogs that move with incredible fluidity and grace, said in reference to that movement, "I had visions of my beloved dogs coursing gracefully across the Montana prairie, with your music as the backdrop."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So to sum up - even though I wrote the music, and performed a lot of it, and then talked to people I'm close to about how it affected them - I'm still baffled as to how and why it creates the reactions it does. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that when I hear a piece of my music played for other people the first time, I have the sensation of being in a waking dream and wondering if others sense just how revealing it is of my inner self. Then over time, I can't believe I wrote it and it seems to have a life of its own apart from me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best I can come up with for what's going in is that I rely nearly completely on my intuition when composing, and that when things work well, the music triggers intuitive reactions in the listeners, and that those reactions can have little to do with my intentions and/or the reactions of others.</span>Lyle Sanford, RMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com0