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solo harp- getting excited
solo harp- getting excited
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waltertore
2535 posts
Sep 17, 2012
3:46 PM
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I am going to be doing a spontaneous seminar this saturday at the columbus harp get together. I am real excited about this. My approach to music (and life)- how one spontaneously taps into an endless flow of songs,life journies, and inspiration, gets pretty much no interest from musicians. Audience members/non musicians are more curious. I think this is because what I do is basically the complete opposite of how the world defines music and most people don't step outside their boxes. This will be my first time in the 40 years I have been playing professionally to do this. Here are some solo harp songs from today. Walter
when you sell your soul for worldly gain
when will I learn
lonesome at sunrise again
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Sep 18, 2012 12:20 PM
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Frank
1175 posts
Sep 17, 2012
7:18 PM
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Those were very spiritual Walter...Have you ever considered doing spotnobeat in a church full of people - I bet you would come up with some insanely good songs!
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waltertore
2536 posts
Sep 18, 2012
3:12 AM
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Hi laurent2015: Thanks! I try to capture my sound naturally and find the acoustic harp tone to be the most expressive. I hope Saturday I can honestly convey the concept of spontobeat. If we can let go of the defenses life has caused us to build up from hurtful events, spontobeat comes out pure and clear. It is the most natural and powerful way to make music but unfortunately society has created layers of pain that causes one to protect and to keep the human soul from shinning pure. I scare most pro musicians because they are so hidden behind layers yet society hails them as pure soul conveyor. This is a sad reality that I have encountered all my life. Many well known musicians have confessed this to me in private.
Frank: Thanks! As a kid I thought I was going to be a priest. I have always been attracted to the spirtual truth. I have tried singing in a few church bands but they want everything rehearsed, repeated, safe, familiar, just like all music which doesn't really want spontaneous truths but instead tried and true comfortable stories. I sang about real life at one church band rehearsal in TX. They stared at me like I was the devil. I said Jesus instructed us to go to the sick not the well and I sing to the sick. I still am a preacher, without a church. On a related note, the book on my life is being written by Nigel Price, a baptist church preacher in England. I feel down the road I may end up opening my own church. The Church of Truth will have preaching/singing/playing music spontaneously. It will be a great way to end my days on this earth. I am still doing the learning to get to that point. The learning is learning to let go of my worldy hangups. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Sep 18, 2012 3:19 AM
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sudsy
19 posts
Sep 18, 2012
7:43 AM
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Walter- I will be at your seminar on Sat.and do look forward to meeting you. I am especially excited about listening to your take on improvising. It's what I struggle with and you tend to live for. See you.
Tim
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waltertore
2537 posts
Sep 18, 2012
12:09 PM
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Hi sudsy: I look forward to meeting you. Maybe I can shed some light on it for you. I approach life with a little childs mind. That is the key to improvising. Little children, before society comes down on them and says their art is wrong, are the true artists of our world. We should study from them to learn about letting what is within come out without filters. It is so sad to watch a child be twisted into just another generic artist by our system. They start out great and our adult dysfunction and need to make all one with expression crushes little kids art and music talents most of the time. They turn out to be great technicians but lack that filterless channel to the soul. I know this will offend most who call themselves musicians but I ask this- do you think how your music will be received by others? If so, you have filters between your soul and the world. It is a black and white thing. Society rationalizes this away but there is no denying this if it pertains to ones art. Take care. Walter
PS: Our culture defines art as a thought out process with concious thoughts going into creation, completion, and acceptance. That is cool with me but what confuses me is most cultures have sayings about "how beautiful it is to see a child in action. Their pureness is so refreshing" Yet as adults we fear letting ourselves go to this place. All I can say is the joy, depth, hope, excitement, that comes via spontaneously created music surpasses anything I have expereinced doing thought out music and I have made thought out music with many of the greats of rock and roll and blues. I will continue to share my insights with the world with hopes it sparks some to try what I share.
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Sep 18, 2012 12:20 PM
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