#Soundresearch No. 12 - John Stowell & Marko Čepak Maki”

#Soundresearch No. 12 - John Stowell & Marko Čepak Maki”

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Recording a jazz guitar was, and still is, difficult for me. I’d say because I was used to a pop sound, where everything is close and bright and present. Recording jazz without turning on my heart was similar to some grumble - all I perceived in a room were the rebounds from the walls, a dark sound and everything being opposite from what I wanted or was used to. But here lies the main catch when you allow yourself to step into the unknown - if someone likes what they’re doing, there must be a reason behind it. And why is it that I don't hear it the same way? Why don’t I feel it?

There were a lot of questions and answers and then some more. What is certain is that the belief I had about me feeling it, was wrong. I was watching and listening to the sound, but not feeling it. To this I can also add a big case of expectations. “I want it to be like that”. To want. How can you then explore and discover, while you want something?

My journeys of exploring the sound have therefore sailed between the sound, myself in meeting different people and accepting their tastes. How interesting things we people are. When I recorded this #Soundresearch I was neither happy nor sad. I was just confused and couldn’t comprehend it. Now, when I listen to it six years later, I can say what beautiful music and melodies it is, regardless if I like the recording or not. Just pure music that doesn’t have anything to do with the recording. I’ve put on the song while I’m writing and I connect with that day and things that I now feel while listening to it. How a person can change through time and feel something different about the same thing. He just falls in love. But he had it in front of him already six years ago.

The path of #Soundresearch has definitely played a huge role here, as it started to dispute my beliefs and I had to again and again fight the unacceptance of a different view on music, colour and what is to someone’s liking or not. What is happening with me? Why am I not like the others? Why can’t I find someone that has the same tastes as me? But what would the research look like if I did find someone with the same likings? Life would be on repeat. Home - job - home. And this is how this pattern changes - first into fear, then comes amazement and finally life. In the end you start to seek a difference, as this is like the freshness of each day and each new breath. How different and yet similar are we all. How tuned we are in some periods on one thing and with time we switch to other stations that before we wouldn’t even come close. A human is a wonder - only when you change yourself, you can get to know others and even then that’s under question. Because when you start cleaning the glass, do you start to see new and different things or just a more colourful reflection of your view of your own life and the experience of it?

I will talk more about John and Maki another time, because I can say that they are a permanent part of the #Soundresearch team. I love jazz

To be continued…

#Soundresearch št. 12 - One mic - John Stowell & Marko Čepak Maki

Snemanje jazz kitare mi je vedno bilo (in še vedno je) težko. Iz prve, ker sem bil navajen pop zvoka, ko je vse blizu in vse svetlo in prezentno. Brez vklopljenega srca snemati jazz mi je bilo podobno bobnenju. Vse kar sem zaznal v sobi so bili odboji sten, temen zvok in vse kontra kot sem si želel oz. bil navajen. A tu nastane glavna caka, ko si dovoliš vstopiti v neznano. Če nekdo nekaj dela in mu je to všeč, je zagotovo kakšen razlog za tem. Zakaj jaz tega ne slišim tako? Zakaj jaz tega ne čutim?

Odgovorov in vprašanj je bilo ogromno in še jih je. Zagotovo pa je bilo prepričanje, da čutim, napačno. Zvok sem gledal in poslušal, ne pa ga čutil. Zraven lahko dodam še velik kovček z naslovom “pričakovanje”. Jaz hočem, da je to tako. Hoteti. Kako lahko spoznavaš in odkrivaš, medtem ko nekaj hočeš?

Tako so moja potovanja v raziskovanju zvoka jadrala med zvokom, samim seboj in spoznavanjem različnih ljudi in sprejemanjem njihovih okusov. Kakšnen zanimiv stvor smo ljudje. Ko sem posnel ta #Soundresearch, nisem bil ne vesel, ne žalosten. Samo nič mi ni bilo jasno in nisem ga uspel sprejeti. Sedaj, ko to poslušam s 6 let razlike, lahko rečem: kakšna lepa muzika je to in kakšne lepe melodije. Ne glede na to ali mi je posnetek lep ali ne. Le čista glasba, ki nima veze s snemanjem. Med pisanjem si spuščam skladbo in se povezujem s tistim dnem in s stvarmi, ki jih sedaj čutim ob poslušanju. Kako se lahko človek spremeni in isto stvar čez leta začuti čisto drugače. Kar zaljubi se vanjo. A jo je imel že šest let nazaj pred svojim nosom.

Zagotovo je tu zelo veliko vlogo igrala pot #Soundresearcha, ki je začela izpodbijati moja prepričanja, saj sem se znova in znova moral boriti proti nesprejemanju drugačnega pogleda na glasbo, barvo ter kaj je komu všeč in kaj ne. Kaj se dogaja z mano, zakaj nisem tak kot drugi. Zakaj ne dobim nekoga, ki ima iste gušte kot jaz? Kakšno pa bi bilo raziskovanje, če dobim nekoga, ki mu je vse enako všeč kot meni. Življenje bi bilo na “repeat”. Kuča posao… Tako se pa tak vzorec spremni, prvo v strah, sledi začudenje in nato pa življenje. Na koncu začneš iskati drugačnosti, saj je to svežina vsakega dneva in vsakega novega vdiha. Kako smo si vsi različni in kako vsi enaki. Kako smo v določenih obdobjih uglašeni na eno stvar in s časom preklopimo na druge postaje, ki jih do tedaj nebi nikoli niti povohali. Človek je čudo. Šele s tem, ko spreminja sebe, lahko spoznava druge, pa še tukaj leži vprašanje. Ko se lotimo čistiti šipico, da bomo bolje videli, začnemo naenkrat videvati nove in drugačne stvari, ali le nek svoj barvitejši odsev na pogled na svoje lastno življenje in naše doživljanje le-tega?

O Johnu in Makiju bom še spregovoril, saj sta, lahko rečem, že del stalne ekipe #Soundresearcha. I love jazz

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