We Met in Winter [piano composition]
Sept 23, 2019 20:40:31 GMT -8
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Post by Azaelia on Sept 23, 2019 20:40:31 GMT -8
Well, it's been many years since I have composed a full piece. This is the first song I have written in 4 years, since events that have left me too heartbroken to write again. Something about putting my emotions down for someone to experience in the most personal and identifying form⏤music⏤felt wrong to me; why should others have to bear my burden? I kept worrying about whether or not people would understand what I'm trying to say in this song, if they'll like it, if they'll feel what I feel.
But I learned something very important as I have grown as a person and musician. When you write for yourself, the goal is not for others to feel what you feel, or to understand you, the goal is for others feel themselves in the music, whatever it may mean to them. It isn't identification that makes writing for yourself so difficult; it is bravery. To reach inside of yourself and admit your sins, pain, desires, greatest joys; to scream "I love you, I love you so much;" to expose yourself; these are the most authentic moments, and the most difficult to release.
Releasing this song has been very difficult for me, but there is nobody I can think to start with than my TPR family. This is "We Met in Winter." I won't tell you what I felt when I wrote this, nor when I play it, because this isn't my story. It's yours (:
But I learned something very important as I have grown as a person and musician. When you write for yourself, the goal is not for others to feel what you feel, or to understand you, the goal is for others feel themselves in the music, whatever it may mean to them. It isn't identification that makes writing for yourself so difficult; it is bravery. To reach inside of yourself and admit your sins, pain, desires, greatest joys; to scream "I love you, I love you so much;" to expose yourself; these are the most authentic moments, and the most difficult to release.
Releasing this song has been very difficult for me, but there is nobody I can think to start with than my TPR family. This is "We Met in Winter." I won't tell you what I felt when I wrote this, nor when I play it, because this isn't my story. It's yours (:
