The Füture is Now - Final Music Sessions from Winter Break & New Year Outlook
The Setting Sun by The Füture
Amigos by The Füture
Mark's Song - The Lullaby by Ellis With Rustagi
Music: 12-31-2009 from my Houston, TX band, The Füture - We play together when we are all back in town from school.
What better way to finish out the year then with some musical improvisation, better known as 'jamming'. The Houston cast - my friends Mark, Rehan and I sat down on the last day of the year in 2009 to lay down these tracks. Interesting Points: Completely spontaneous, these have only been edited to bring out the true clarity of the room. Music is very much a conversation between instruments, each instrument subtly giving the others clues as to what's coming next. One thing that I felt was fairly remarkable and awesome was the switch in time signatures in Amigos - around the 4:35 mark. This was something that I thought of as we were going along. Though jamming is often void of marked verbal communication, I held up my left hand with four fingers repeatedly to signal the change to 4/4 (a 1/4 note gets the beat, and there are 4 beats to a measure.) Also, on that song, what amazed me was what the guys came up with on guitar based on my loop feel, designed to repeatedly circle around. In addiiton, Mark had a song that he's been working on that I accompanied him on using my djembe, an African hand drum. Music is a great way for me to express creativity and simply rock out. It's like the world could stop and I could just keep playing forever. Nothing beats the real thing and I look forward to creating more music in the future with my friends. A Note on the New Year: I see 2010 coming with open eyes. The challenge this year is sustainability in my organizations. I've created them. Now it's time to make sure that (in the case of the Live Music Connection ) they gain a solid foothold from which to continue to provide good to MIT, (in the case of my company Laser Kard) become financially self-supporting, and (in the case of Camp Kesem) establish a firm program that will better the lives of teens whose parents have been affected by cancer. I will be working this year to see to it that these projects can gain a real footing from which they can continue to provide value.A world of opportunity lays ahead and in the words of Bono all you need, "is a red guitar, 3 chords, and the truth." Welcome, 2010.
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