Breaking the Music - A New Look

Yes.... Finally.... It took me a long time to search for a blogskin that would reflect my personality changes especially when university is just fifteen days away for me. I apologise for the long hiatus, as writers' block; computer hangouts and sustained fatigue arising from work destroys any inspiration for me to write something meaningful.

First of all, allow me to explain the choice of blogskin. Yellow is one of my favourite colours (apart from blue and red), and is possibly might bring luck to me in the year of the Pig. In addition, I prefer to describe my life like an overture where my mood and emotions can be very different at times. (An overture is a long, single piece of music with different sections of contrasting tempos and mood.) It's just like a stock market where life has its own ups and downs. The presence of a string (shown by the violin with green lines), woodwind (shown by the clarinet with purple lines) and brass (shown by the trumpet with orange lines) symbolises various forces of society (family, school, career) working to influence the choices that one makes in life.

Lastly, the breaking of the piano symbolises radical change to me. The piano is indeed a beautiful instrument and considerably does not require much physical effort or memory work to learn. (in comparison to wind instruments where you've to first memorise fingering charts before you can even start playing) However the piano is made even more beautiful and relevant when other orchestral instruments accompany it in duets, sonatas, concertos and so on. George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is a very good example of "unorthodox" music composed in the 1920s where Gershwin placed both the piano and the clarinet (the two main solo instruments) to form a synergy with the other instruments of the orchestra to create one of the most popular and signature jazz pieces that remains vividly appreciated by society. Henceforth, even when the piano is broken (akin to a setback in life), something new arises (as shown as the swirling lines) which continues to sustain and bring about new beginnings in the challenges of life.

Well I hope you readers will like the new look of this blog, which I personally believe is better than one boring Simpsons picture placed (remember the old blogskin?). Having spent my secondary school years as a percussionist I somehow like to compare certain sections of band repertoire to certain parts of my life. Sometimes Band Pieces cause people to bond together because they've a common love for the piece! For example, both Michael Tan (a close mate of mine back in NS) and I only realized a month before ORD that we both loved James Swearinghan's Seagate Overture and Philip Sparke's Hanover Festival. That brought our relationship to an even higher level and it made me appreciate the presence and importance of music in describing one's life story. A good band piece to study with reference to 'life' can be Mark Camphouse's "A Movement for Rosa" where the composer divides his composition into three distinct sections to describe how Rosa Parks' life changed before, during and after the famous "bus seat" incident during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the US.

Okay that's all for now. As this week is my last week at work I hope I can find more inspiration to blog and await the challenges of being an undergraduate! Signing out for dinner now and happy blog-hopping!
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