Reading, practising, “tiny experiments”…

Hi there! This week was very quiet. I focused on reading a lot, practicing my repertoire and technique. I also took the time to enjoy the freedom of being freelancer and did a lot of the things I have been postponing for some time. Some hobbies and necessary conversations.

I keep writing emails to people and theatres and waiting to have an opportunity. On the meantime I am also investing on myself and on what I can organize by myself to keep making music. I am also grateful to have the time to study and really focus in a very conscious way on my voice, to listen to it and keep experimenting with it. I am closing the gap and the more I practice the closer I get to understanding it. It has taken many years for me to understand it, as my ideas, concepts are changing, evolving and so my voice too. With age some things get easier and some others not, and the whole point is always balancing and listening to what it wants. It is so important keep learning and adapting, also challenging constantly my own ideas and test them.

This week I continued reading my daily Holiday and Tolstoi, plus I started to read “tiny experiments” by the neuroscientist Anne-Laure le Cunff. It is a very nice and easy to read, with lots of ideas and facts around productivity, purpose, metacognition, procrastination and many other topics, all of them clearly explained and many short stories about people’s journeys and, all in all, a really nice reading. I get lots of ideas and I remember concepts from Seneca, Epictitus, Marcus Aurelius, Socrates, Adler… So it is definitely on the line of thought and the experimental way of doing things, which is the way I enjoy and learn the most. She makes a very strong remark among other, about life not being linear, like Adler, instead of thinking in a kinetic way rather approach life in a more energial. So if you are interested in reading and expanding the way you approach any situation and decision making. I definitely encourage you to the Greek and Romans I mentioned, plus “the courage to be disliked” and this “tiny experiments”. If you read them let me know what you think about it and let us engage into a conversation.

Take care and see you next week.