http://layabozi.com/2008/06/alec-haavik-friction-five-layabozis-first-featured-artist/ Shanghai's music webzine; the world of music in Shanghai, China and in the big rollin' globe. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:45:01 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://layabozi.com/2008/06/alec-haavik-friction-five-layabozis-first-featured-artist/comment-page-1/#comment-4 mache Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:03:51 +0000 http://www.layabozi.com/?p=17#comment-4 Quentin, you are right about silence; it's of course very important, as important as a white canvas is to a painting. Silence is also fundamental when communicating, and may be everybody has been at least once in a situation when silence surprised us and make us uncomfortable, nervous or confused at least; we look around searching for any help or guide, feeling a little lost may be, that's being scared of silence. Musicians, being human beings, experience this too, but because having a more trained relationship with silence, it seems to me, usually, they manage better this empty blank moments when they happened during a conversation for example, but it is not often happening a musician on the stage having one of this moment; when silence is not expected and instead of fast reaction covering the silence, the band decides together to wait until the music is naturally back. To me it was like seeing a person falling down the boat and forgetting swimming, and instead of picking him and fast bring him back to the boat, they all -the band- decide at the same time to jump to the water and stay there until the drowning one remembers how to swim again back to the boat by himself. Alec Haavik Friction Five actually are also very skillful when it comes to use silence, although not very often you find yourself into a complete silence during a gig, sometimes the audience and the environmental sound are not really helping the canvas to be as white as it could be, turning it into a smoggy white, some of the things of our polluted city and the human kind. Quentin, you are right about silence; it’s of course very important, as important as a white canvas is to a painting.
Silence is also fundamental when communicating, and may be everybody has been at least once in a situation when silence surprised us and make us uncomfortable, nervous or confused at least; we look around searching for any help or guide, feeling a little lost may be, that’s being scared of silence.
Musicians, being human beings, experience this too, but because having a more trained relationship with silence, it seems to me, usually, they manage better this empty blank moments when they happened during a conversation for example, but it is not often happening a musician on the stage having one of this moment; when silence is not expected and instead of fast reaction covering the silence, the band decides together to wait until the music is naturally back. To me it was like seeing a person falling down the boat and forgetting swimming, and instead of picking him and fast bring him back to the boat, they all -the band- decide at the same time to jump to the water and stay there until the drowning one remembers how to swim again back to the boat by himself.
Alec Haavik Friction Five actually are also very skillful when it comes to use silence, although not very often you find yourself into a complete silence during a gig, sometimes the audience and the environmental sound are not really helping the canvas to be as white as it could be, turning it into a smoggy white, some of the things of our polluted city and the human kind.

]]> http://layabozi.com/2008/06/alec-haavik-friction-five-layabozis-first-featured-artist/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Quentin Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:03:11 +0000 http://www.layabozi.com/?p=17#comment-3 "It’s not every night you get to listen to a musician confronting the fear to silence...." i'm not agree with that, if more musicians could use silences in their music, maybe they cold understand what is music. The sound is sound because silence is existiing. If musicians could use more colors, nuances, and silence, the good ideas they could have sometimes could be better, more understable. Just try something : go to listen a live, and try to count how many times during the show there is silence, real one to contrast with the sound.......................yes, try again to find this band.... “It’s not every night you get to listen to a musician confronting the fear to silence….” i’m not agree with that, if more musicians could use silences in their music, maybe they cold understand what is music. The sound is sound because silence is existiing. If musicians could use more colors, nuances, and silence, the good ideas they could have sometimes could be better, more understable. Just try something : go to listen a live, and try to count how many times during the show there is silence, real one to contrast with the sound…………………..yes, try again to find this band….

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