I will try to explain how I make music with my ears suffering from losses of hearing. They were testing me more than twenty years. When I was a child, my hearing capabilites have been perfect. In singing training, I usually attempted to feel the vibration in my body and on the head to “remember” sound physically. This is a very important approach to singing for me, as I memorize intervals, tunes, songs and scales of harmonies, progressions, so.
I started to learn the classical guitar in my seventh year. The motivation was to achieve perfection and virtuosity like my daddy Otti reached on his trumpet. It was hard for me to start, but after some month I realized, that my fingers became fluent with the notes on paper. I felt surprised, how training works on the human mind. For fun, I trained some hours a day, so that all the basics I would learn in the future, sit. They do until today. Proper understanding of music, what it means, what it describes, or what the tunes would want to express, the sounds, the compositions, helped me lots to develop more expression.
I cofeel. This means, I can feel sounds I play on guitar or bass. I trained myselves in childhood to “wear” my guitar on my front body, so that the vibrating wood transmits picked frequencies to my body. Similar techniques are used by deaf dancers, who dance according to the beats, basses and frequencies. They feel the vibrating grounds. Basically, for the audience it is not visible, if a dancer hears sounds or music, or feels them. This is a very important element in training to learn, I think.
“You run away” is a title recorded in 1987 for the first “The Razorblade” LP. Cover graphics show a 3D – graphical edition of the singer’s photo. There’s a fast version on Vinyl, too, for those, who like speed garage punk. Audiorama Studios did some good work, and promised, that their mixing and mastering would be perfect for future.
Audio software and smart devices became so sensitive, that wearing in-ear or studio gear c a n help to overcome lowered hearing capabilities. In refining my knowledge, I started to use some phone applications for underway training, like The Ear Gym or Perfect ear. Tapping on phone is enough to answer questions or play scales, intervals, or enter missing notes of chords. Music Theory and Note Recognizer apps assist my progress. It feels nice, to have these little small programs at hand.
