今日和！小西です。皆様いかがお過ごしでしょうか？
ボストンには段々春が訪れて・・・・・と、言いたい所ですが、
ここマサチューセッツ州はボストン、そんな易しい天候の巡りをしてません。
先週は結構寒くて、最低３℃最高15℃くらいの日々が続いていたのですが、
数日前は突如27 ℃をマークしまして、今日は最高が再び16℃まで落ちて行きました。
前回の日記にも書きましたが、これがBoston Weatherと呼ばれる強者です。
しかしながら、日差しはかなり強くなり春の陽気と言った雰囲気は出て参りました。
このままいきなり夏になりそうです。こちらでの夏は僕も初体験なので楽しみです。
一番僕が季節で違和感を覚えるのは、やはり梅雨がないことです。
あの季節を超えて来る夏が堪らなく好きで、しかも紫陽花も好きなので、
ちょっと残念な気はしますが、ボストンの春夏を堪能したいと思います。
Student Experience
Ingrid Jensen LIVE!! @ Cafe 939
April 25, 2012 – 2:59 pm
Pat Pattison: On Writing About Writing
April 19, 2012 – 3:57 pm
Liberal arts professor Pat Pattison talks about the process of writing Songwriting Without Boundaries: A Lyricist’s Guide to Finding Your Voice, which was released on January 9, 2012.
Scott, my editor at Writer’s Digest books, called: “Hey Pat, your second edition of Writing Better Lyrics is really doing great. Can you do a quick follow-up? We’d love to have another book, kind of a companion to Writing Better Lyrics. Whaddya think?”
“Um, let me get back to you on that.”
“Quick follow-up?” That’s the last thing I wanted—to do something quick and have the folks who own Writing Better Lyrics say, “Eh, it’s OK, but I don’t like it as much as Writing Better Lyrics.”
But I did want to do something, however quick or slow. But what? I’d already dealt with structure in The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, with rhyme in The Essential Guide to Rhyming, and brainstorming, lyric development, and prosody in Writing Better Lyrics. I wanted to do something that would take me to new places too. That’s one of my hopes in writing a book—to learn something new myself.
Pat Pattison
Berklee’s Spring Fest 2012
April 19, 2012 – 2:57 pm
Hoje vou escrever sobre o festival anual que acontece em Boston todo final de Abril. O festival organizado pela Berklee chamado Spring Fest! Na semana passada eu escrevi a primeira parte do post sobre o Guitar Night de 2012 dirigido por Jon Finn e Mike Idhe. Terei que interpolar este post entre as duas partes do blog sobre o Guitar Night pois a Berklee ainda precisa me disponibilizar o vídeo e as fotos do evento. Muitos dos meus posts são sobre minha banda de Rock, Dirty Blind! Este é mais um deles! A algumas semanas atrás o Caf Show Office na Berklee promoveu uma votação online para decidir uma das bandas que iriam participar do Spring Fest sendo o resto decidido por um comitê. Estou feliz de anunciar que o Dirty Blind venceu os dois! Fomos escolhidos pelo comitê e também pelo voto online!
Sound Collage Contest 2012: Creativity Has No Box!
April 18, 2012 – 10:05 am
I am here to tell you all that the art of imagination has not died—it has simply reinvented itself. For the novice and professional musician alike, the use of creativity and imagination has solely depended on some source of inspiration and when there is a lack of inspiration, you hit a brick wall. But what if you were given an entire catalog of inspirational sources to choose from, where could the possibilities take you? Some of the most creative electronic sound designers were given the chance to test the limits of where their minds could take them. It forces them to think outside of the box, experience the moments of too many musical ideas or the agony of a lack thereof, and produce something unique and special.
Boston Acoustic Scene Remembers John McGann
April 17, 2012 – 12:31 pm
The following post was written by Matt Glaser, artistic director for Berklee’s American Roots Music Program. Photographer Erin Prawoko provided the images.
Last Tuesday night at the Cantab Lounge there was an outpouring of love and grief for our dear, departed John McGann. The Boston acoustic music scene has become a very tight-knit community, with Berklee at its epicenter and John at the epicenter of the epicenter.
Matt Glaser and Bruce Molsky. Photo by Erin Prawoko.