Groove

I like music with a groove. Those who have seen some of my past music posts all show this side. Even the classical music I like have a strong rhythmic emphasis, like Stravinsky who prefers percussion sounding music for nearly all instruments including voice and piano.

Groove just meant smooth and flowing to me when I was hifi geeky teenager. I made radios and amplifiers and speakers to play the music I like. Portable music has been my friend for over 30 years. It was instrumental in my physical and psychological recover as I worked out and traveled.

Now that vinyl records are just collectors items or limited editions, my misconception that the groove referred to the recording being in the tiny grooves of the record seems silly and outdated. But the origin of the word was in jazz music as a sexual euphemism to describe the successful collaboration between players and the music.

I feel my own life is getting into a groove. Like pieces of a music that combine to inspire, it has to be sexy, attractive, relevant and timely. Discovering who I am is a big part of being in the groove of anything I do because the material and the soul is not in playing the right notes, doing the right thing, in rhythm, in sync...

A creative, expressive and innovative society is about rhythm, not schedules. It is more like a group of musicians improvising based on a common score, like jazz, than making mass recordings. The value is in the each individual performance and not playing the same recording. That is what is happening for all except the most popular musicians. All other artists are making money on tours or regular shows more than selling recordings.

Technology needs to shift from mass communication to courting high value contacts. For it is in small groups that most of life really exist. I'm in the groove of the new paradigms beginnings. And I'm eager to go on tour.