Second day of school. I LOVE Tech class. I am so excited about learning Max/MSP this semester!
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I am all settled down, finally. My new apartment is unfurnished, so I bought bunch of new furniture. For a while, I suspected I had allergy again, but turns out that there are fleas in my apartment. So, I set some insect bombs today...
I just came back from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and will upload pictures soon. So, I am gonna move the third times this afternoon. Meanwhile, I have been staying at a friend's house and a friend's friends' apartment... and, I met many new Chinese friends. It's a great opportunity for me to practice my Mandarin. I am really looking forwards to live in my new and huge and close-to-school apartment ---- there's three bedrooms, on-site laundry, air-conditioner...
# I remembered learning frantically about chess and Go (Weiqi, 圍棋) last semester, and was gonna write a blog post about it ---- maybe later. I really wanna find someone who could play with me... # Ima be very random here... I have been thinking about getting a new laptop for so long. I have this Dell Inspiron 6400 for almost 5 years now, and I feel it is gonna die soon. The screen is shorta broken; the cable plug does not work so i can only use wi-fi; it has killed three new ac power adapter; it loads forever, and I don't wanna format it again... maybe it's time for me to get a Mac... I also wanna get the new iPod Touch that might come out in September... TOO MUCH TO SPEND! So, I am back from Hong Kong after over two months of vacation! I enjoyed this summer a lot. Hong Kong is my home! I will miss it a lot...
# You might wonder why there are all these pictures at this composer's web site... First, I love photography. Second, I think photography has a lot in common with composition. In photography, just like in composition, I have to think about color, contrast, form, pattern, structure, f/m/background, subject (melody/motif?), theme, and last but not least, what do I want to say? So, I am actually composing when I take pictures... What is real? I don't know anymore; I can't feel anymore...
# "Inception" was a great movie. It reminded me of "Shutter Island". So empty... I see no color, no shape, no direction; I hear no interval, no chord, no progression. I sense nothing.
One day, this emptiness will turn into music. This July has been so much fun. I don't want it to end. I want to stay happy forever.
You see black in a completely dark room. You can locate your eyesight, and you know the directions that you are looking at. But, if you close your eyes, you see nothing --- no color, no shape, no direction, no sense of seeing... There is a huge difference.
You can't do that with your ears. Even if you block all the sounds, you hear silence. You can never shut it off. Silence is a sound, just like black is a color. I need to write two more blog posts in here. Here is one. Brief and doesn't really say anything...
I really just want to play piano every day, but I have to go to Guangzhou again tomorrow, not that I don't wanna see grandmum... I love my grandmum.
I am keeping myself occupied as much as I can, so that I feel I am very much alive. I am playing this Chopin Ballade madly, but my playing doesn't have a soul. It's loud, messy... I hear no musicianship in me. so empty. there's nothing. I want to feel pain, but I feel nothing. Okay, maybe I shouldn't play. I feel like I am insulting Chopin and whoever can play this piece... # Maybe I became a composer because I fear to be alone. I have my music. |
Patrick Chan
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