In this Episode, Alejandro and me go over his new EP “Edurne”, his musical career and the Berlin life. Among it being a meaningful project, we had lots of fun during the production and editing.

The Art of finding the middle (Part 2)

There is a certain optimum, a middle ground. Everything that is going through a process, that is going from A to Z has it. Even as persons we have times of our life when we are most productive, most inventive. Or times in which it seems as if all the known world worked together to create our experience. Everything coming and going in waves. Cultures have their high-time, Nations, and also forms of art. Has art ever experienced such a great destruction as in the 20th century? There is a parallel in the exclamation: “Jazz was great, but you have killed it”. It was destruction of form with intent, the re-emergence of something raw and unformed. Late Coltrane. Some older colleague of mine commented: “He really means war”. A war of principles, of spirituality, of philosophy. And we are still fighting it. 

The AI Zeitgeist

The temporary Zeitgeist is all set on AI-Technology. The “experts” claim, that soon all music could be “manufactured” by artificial intelligence. Have you ever been at a Wagner Opera? How, of all possible worlds, am I in the one where “Parsifal” is (still) being staged? The symbolism is infinitely deep. Artificial Intelligence “knows” symbolism not. Is it capable of invoking religious feelings? Or is it too shallow? Listening in awe, when shower after shower is sent through my spine, I want to exclaim: “the music, she understands everything”. The digital age seems to have attacked music at its core, the cards are mixed a new.

Music is in need of music 

.Rather then lending an ear to the doomsayers, I state the above. Music is a reflection of consciousness, at least that’s what they say. But consciousness is a complex matter. We think, feel, use our intuition, or are just perceiving things. Many musicians describe themselves to be the vessel, the transmitter, the perceivers, not the players. Here is Rule Nr.1: to perceive the ultimate without intermediary structures is indistinguishable from a psychological suicide. One foot on the ground – one foot on the ultimate – that is where we function best. That is where the music is emerging in its most meaningful form. Emerging into this world.