after the emergency ecstasy, the laundry.... (Patreon)

my dear patrons.....

i am still sort of flailing in the afterglow of what happened yesterday.

are you? 

i am.

and i am doing the laundry post after the ecstasy.

if you missed it, the archive lives here: 

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/t873q9h7

it felt like -  and i'm not exaggerating - one of the best performances i've given.

given.

to give. it was just me, talking to you, then playing piano for about 40 minutes. the piano talked.

it felt ecstatic. it felt sort of, i dunno....holy. cathartic. real. to just Make Music. 

i cried a lot. 

it meant a lot to me. for this to exist. this patreon, this community, this way of being able to make and put out art.

it meant more to me than i can really put into words. it felt like a turning point for so many reasons, reasons that i can't articulate, and reasons that i don't need to articulate, and probably shouldn't articulate, because that's why we have music.

i did the music.

i've really missed doing the music. 

i felt so very connected to you all. if you were there, you understand. it felt like i was making art not for me, and for for you, and not even for "us"....but for some unnamable place where the three meet.

if you weren't, you sort of can be. time, space, they don't exist much.

go watch the replay of the cast. the piece itself wound up being between 0:54 and 1:30.

but i don't want you to watch just the music. the story behind it .... is the music.

it's all the music.

you are the music.

we all are the music. 

i'll be sending you all a download link to a WAV and an MP3 soon....but i don't think anything will top this whole thing, itself, as a thing.

it was....a thing.

it was a real thing, everybody.

also....i just went to the post and checked, and a total of 911 people watched the show live.

911.

emergency soothing piano music, indeed.

i love you all so so much.

so much.

thank you.

thank you.

thank you.

all of you.

*bows deeply. cries a bit*

xx

a

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