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dedicated to Sheila and all the others on and of the Wryting-L list
for the continuing inspiration and (in)formation.
how to play poems on the piano using text as a score, cathedrastically,
while you can't even play the piano properly.
Don't worry if you can't play the piano, i can't either, you're about to do something for yourself mainly / eventually.
I'm only letting you hear this because it's good cathedral practice to let everybody in on your methods of relaxation and it's like with other things that are near impossible, the painting without proper education or the writing in a different language then your own:
it don't matter if it doesn't live up to any standard, only the movement matters, the activity itself.
After a while you'll see that you even might get away with it, occasionally..
so you take a text, one you like, preferably
you put it up at the piano like it's a score
you push record on your recording device
you then start to play ad libitum while reading the poem/text
it doesn't matter much if you can't really play,
just try hard to make it sound like the reading in your head
when you've finished reading you're supposed to have finished playing to
press stop on your recording device
afterwards preferably filter out the voice, of make it a bit vague
anyway: make sure no on can understand what you are saying (echo or any other effect)