I love the way that jazz guitar is physical yet not physical. I mean the sound is quite ephemeral, as is all jazz music to a certain extent, you mix the physicality of people playing notes on their instruments with the non-physical, airy sounds of the music to create a juxtaposition. I am referring, specifically, here, to the nature of playing guitar myself, in a personal way, trying to get deeper into the sound as I physically play the notes, but still producing quite an "airy" or transient sound, trying to reach a sort of "base" or "earth" or "ground" like the bottom of a well, you can never quite get to the bottom, but you know it's there! . It exists, but it cannot be grasped.
Jazz guitar has this beautiful paradox—its sound feels both grounded and intangible. As a guitarist, you’re deeply involved in the physical act of playing, but the resulting sound floats and dances, never fully grasped. It's a constant pursuit of something that feels elusive, like reaching the bottom of a well you know is there, but can never touch. The beauty lies in that struggle—the connection between the physicality of playing and the ephemeral quality of the sound.
I think that might be a Nintendolife forum
thing @Pizzamorg. It keeps happening with some of the other topics from there showing up every now and again
-EDIT- I changed the Pushsquare part of the link to Nintendolife and it worked
Ah solution found thank you @HallowMoonshadow I'd never even have thought to try that. Does that mean I am good to start a wrestling thread on here? Or should I use the Nintendo Life one?
@PeaceSalad damn… one of the great artists of the 20th (and 21st) century… regardless of medium. I love pretty much everything the guy ever did… very sad news.
I have been listening to a lot electronic music and rnb this morning. Taking a break from jazz and hip hop. Feels good to refresh my head, from time to time.
Edit: Now planning to spend the next few months hunkered down platinuming Sekiro and studying copious amounts of jazz guitar theory for all-fourths tuning!
Currently listening to Test Match Special (Cricket) Podcast done by the BBC. @Thrillho do you ever listen?
I find their coverage of games to be quite good.
Edit: Following-it up with This Jungian Life (Psychology) Podcast.
@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Been in a very busy stretch again for the last bit so I can at least say that they’re going 😄 We’re coming up on the early bird submission deadline for TIFF so we’ve been flat out on finishing that project up.
How about yourself?
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” C.S. Lewis
@Jimmer-jammer A busy stretch at work you mean? I find it commendable that you can still make time to pursue your musical and cinematic adventures. Hopefully you and your filmmaking partner can get it in in time!
I've got my eye on a book on musical theory for jazz guitar that relates to a particular tuning I use, apparently it is filled with copious amounts of jazz knowledge for both amateurs and professionals alike, so I plan and hunkering down with that for a while and just perfecting my skills within the medium as a hobby. Not planning on doing any more recordings right now, thought I'd do what I'm sure a lot of people would have liked Metallica to do and stop after the first four records! 😉
Also starting to read more about art, I posted link to an article in The Art Thread on here recently, if you're interested. And I'm doing that instead of hunting for new jazz guitarists and emcees on spotify, we had this conversation recently, I believe, about how as you get older you seek out less new music, because in a sense, you're already "full" or "almost full-up" on the music you consumed at an early stage in life or altogether up to this point, I remember you saying you're still quite immersed in the music of the scene you grew up with, to a certain extent, for example. So I'm feeling like I'm seeking out new territory in the form of the art research I do, and letting the musical discoveries I have made settle down in another aspect of my being, like nuts for the winter!
i.e still listening to and enjoying my old artists, but not going out of my way, in particular, to discover new ones.
"That which is perfect is finished. The perfect man is no different." - Madvillain.
Edit: I've also finalised my list of games for the next two and a half years, over on the PS4 Backloggery and Most Wanted Thread, after completing as many of those as I can in that time I'll just relax with films, books, guitar ,music and cricket as my main pastimes outside of voluntary or paid work. At which point, if I'm still allowed to be on here minus gaming, I'll just be posting in the relevant threads that correspond to the aforementioned hobbies and interests. Sorry to give you such a gregarious helping of details on my life's plan in terms of extracurricular activities for the time being, but I just felt I would share my thoughts on here, not using any other form of social media properly.
Edit II: Also been listening to a lot of this guy recently, trying to emulate his style, this is his latest album.
@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Sounds like you’ve got a good plan that I’m sure won’t change at all 😉
I’ve been on a history kick for a number of years now and I’ve realized how much art informs our understanding of history more than anything; I’d argue more than economics even. I hope the endeavour is rewarding for you!
Work has been acutely crazy (looming tariffs yada yada) but I was specifically referring to my creative pursuits. As such a small crew, and with busy lives, it takes us a while to complete projects at the level of quality we try to achieve, and often moves in spurts. We just keep at it, as anyone should when it comes to such things 😄
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” C.S. Lewis
Further to my conversation with Jimmer-jammer, I had a moment of realization that I had been listening to such a huge amount of music for so long because I had been "searching" for some kind of musical answer, something that would resolve other issues in my life, I realised now that I was "full up" on music and couldn't take in any new artists/albums and must have already discovered the answer somewhere along the way, and if not, I could always look elsewhere, or resolve those issues in a healthier way, by dealing with them in and of themselves.
Edit: I am quite content at this present stage with my pantheon of musical artists, and ,at this stage, only plan to listen to new albums by them, rather than those by new (to me) artists. In short, I don't feel the need to add any new artists to my Spotify library.
@Th3solution How are you, man? I hope sports watching, gaming, work and travel are all treating you well. I have been reading Middlemarch by George Eliot and studying a jazz guitar book, when not playing Sekiro, I'm getting towards the midgame now, just have to a couple more minibosses and a gatekeeper boss that bars the way to the midgame, and is apparently the real test of whether you can play the game, a "noob filter" ,if you will. Also watching a film that I will talk about in The Movie Thread once I'm done with it.
Hope all is well with you.
"I don't need a plan B to take away energy from my plan A."
@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Oh yeah, all is well. Super Bowl is tonight. I don’t have a huge investment in either of the teams involved, but it’s a cultural phenomenon over here so I’ll be tuning in to watch and make it an event.
The outage yesterday did put a small damper on my gaming. I played a little RE4, and am close to the end of Chapter 10. Then I wanted to switch over and play something less intense for a couple hours and started Gris, a lovely platformer, but I was kicked off the game after only 10 minutes. I tried logging back onto it a few times and it kept saying the system was down, so I just gave up on gaming for the rest of the afternoon.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution That is really strange as I was still able to continue playing my current game with no interrupttions. The only thing I could not do is anything to do with online. So I couldn't do stuff like check my trophies or the store.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@JohnnyShoulder I guess I should clarify, my issue was when cloud streaming. RE4 is downloaded to my console and it seemed to work fine (outside of the real time trophy updating) but other games I had planned to play were via streaming and I hadn’t downloaded them and that’s when I ran into trouble.
I’ve been coming around on cloud streaming of smaller games rather than downloading them and have been quite satisfied, but the instability at times like this is really a big problem. The worrisome thing when I started playing Gris by stream was that immediately after earning my first trophy in the opening minutes is when it kicked me and then gave me a “service not available” type of message when I tried to reload it. I was worried that the first trophy was going to glitch because I figured it didn’t upload the trophy data and also possibly didn’t upload my save and I wondered if the trophy earn would be corrupted whereby I wouldn’t be able to re-earn it and yet it would never be registered on my account therefore my being permanently locked out of it. A silly thing, I know, except it was a gold trophy! 😅 And I think I want to try for the platinum. Anyway, it made me worried enough that I wasn’t going to mess with the uncertainty of potentially screwing up my save data or trophy data with this unknown system breakdown so I chose to shut down my console for the day until I knew it was stable again.
It happened to me back in 2011 — I was locked out of a couple trophies while playing AC2, which therefore locked me out of the platinum. During the glitchiness of the PSN at the time, I earned a couple trophies, at least one of which was an unmissable trophy for completing a chapter (or as the game called them, a ‘DNA sequence’) which didn’t register on the PSN/system, yet registered locally as being earned, and so I have this weird “hole” in my trophy list with all the story related trophies except for DNA sequence 4, including the one for completing the game. So on my list it looks like I skipped the fourth chapter and yet still finished it, which should be impossible! I tried to reload and re-earn it at the time, but my console ‘thinks’ I already earned it and it won’t pop again and so I’m forever locked out.
Gratefully it appears the Gris trophy was able to upload to the system even though I crashed a few seconds after it, so disaster averted this time! 😄 But I wasn’t going to take anymore chances.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
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