just a selkie in the sea

(I also go by Liz)

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so fascinating hearing the difference between playing music fast (as written) so that you can feel the momentum, but you're still in control. like driving 70 in a 60. you're Aware but it's fine

and then there's taking it faster. I get a sense of palpable danger, 85 in a 60, if anything unexpected happens it's all over


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in reply to @JhoiraArtificer's post:

One of the most underrated skills IMO is to play slow music slow - especially when there are big dynamic changes and lots of emotion. There's always this urge to drive forward to the big climax but, no, sometimes it's about that patience; forcing the listener to experience the drawn-out joy of antici...pation - and eventual release.

(This is a bit like something else you can do in a car that doesn't require driving at all.)

😆😆😆 (you're not wrong)

Unfortunately I lost this one in my drafts so I'm not sure what I was listening to at the time... I think it might have been IV of Shostakovich 5: so, supposed to be "urgent" but the difference between "I have somewhere to be" and "I started running down this hill and now I can't stop" is so real. Completely different kind of stressful.

Yeah there is nothing quite as unsettling as listening to an ensemble go just a little too fast on an already frantic piece, like a skateboarder careening down a street in San Francisco with nothing but the Bay in front of them.

Likewise, there's nothing more disappointing than watching one ruin a slow build because they all have somewhere to be even if the composer didn't.