"
Minulla on säveltämisestä ollut paljon taukoa, mutta tänään sävelsin
jotakin, ja jonkin verran myöhemmin katselin villakoiraani Banjoa,joka
on kohta 12-vuotias ja aprikoosinvärinen keskikokoinen poikakoira,
oikein fiksi ja kiva luonne, niin kun se loikoi ja katteli ja tuumin
sille sanoa, että tollanen villakoira on tällä tavalla hieno, ja siitä
tunnelmasta lauloin ääneen, ja tuli aika venäläisen kuuloinen, ihan
hieno sävel, ja sen sitten raapustin paperille. Eli lauletaan
tunnelmasta, jokaon että hienoa elää tolleen viisaan tai muuten hienon
yksilön kanssa.
"
"lauantai 29. huhtikuuta 2017
Tunnelman inspiroima laulu
5.5.2017 Nyt kun puihin ja pensaisiin on tulossa lehdet,
niin Euroviisujen sijasta tuntuu, että luonto kaipaa jotenkin sitä, että
ihmiset laulaisivat, kenties tähän tapaan, vähän kuin mökillä tai
vapaamuotoisessa kuorossa tai kotona laulellen, sellaista mikä tuntuu
hetkeen sopivan.
29.4.2017
Tällanen muutaman vuoden takainen suurin piirtein osaamani laulutaito
tuli tänä aamuna mieleeni, kun ruoho oli jo useimmin paikoin vihreää,
aurinko paistoi, linnut lauloivat ja viherkasvit ikkunallani tekivät
vehreyden tuntua, oli kesän tapaan utuisaa tunnelmallisuutta ilmassa.
Niin kun tuon mielialan mukana tuli mieleeni suurin piirtein osaamani
sävelmä tai jotakin sentapaista, niin lauloin sen tunnelman
kiehtovuuksia kuvastelevalla lauluäänellä, kuin kujerrus tai jodlaus tai
säveltäminen, jonkinlainen tunnelman mukaisen äänen tuottaminen, ei
kaavamaisesti laulaen vaan soivin kohdin laulaen tunnelman värejä
painottaen, vähän kuin erivahvuisista palasista koostaen, jotenkin
kamalan luonnollinen laulu ja tunnelmallinen, vähän kuin se, mitä
säveltäjä sävelmällään tavoittelee: että on hetki, jolla on sellainen
tunnelma mutta rikkaammin, ja sen sitten laulaa luonnostaan, ei
la-la-laa tms kuin nuoteista vaan siltä kohden kun tunnelma koskettaa
itseä, kiehtoo tuollainen kokemus, mutta jotenkin yleisellä tasolla,
että muitakin voisi kiehtoa eikä jotenkin henkilökohtaisen elämän
mörinänä.
Muutama vuosi sitten, taisi olla keväällä 2012, onnistuin säveltämään
laulua tuohon tapaan, kovin oli kaunista, mutta jotenkin hukkasin sen
siihen, kun hain nauhuria, enkä sitten sen jälkeen ole niin paljoa
laulanut tai säveltänyt. Taisin yltää silloin haaveideni tasalle.
Tuo laulutaito tulee siitä, kun yrittää oppia laajempaa ilmaisua, että
voi laulaa tunteikkaasti näin tai tuollaista laulua noin, tai
tunnelmallisesti, vaikuttavasti tai mitä nyt onkaan, monenlaisia värejä
äänessä, monenelaisia tapoja lähestyä laulua ihan omana itsenään, onhan
elämän hetkiä, henkiä ja lauluja monia erilaisia. Niin siitä kirjosta
sitten kun poimii hetken mukaan, mutta vähän kuin tuulen mukana osin
hä'ipyvä laulu, ei tasapaksu, niin tulee hetken sävyjä kuvattua, ei vain
äänensävyissä vaan ihan laulutaidollakin, jotenkin luonnostaan.
9.5.2017 Is singing spring one big idea in having Eurovisionsong
contest in the spring? Here one could learn that skill of singing
spring. It is good to have skilled models, but everybody singing sring
in their own circles is the point.
I have written about living wisely the seasons in Finland (fromover +30C
summer time hot days to some -30C winter timeä's coldest mornings) at
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
Here is my translation of the above:
Song inspired by the moment's atmosphere
Now that trees and bushes are getting their leaves, instead of
Eurovision song contest, I feel that the nature would somehow long for
humans too to sing, maybe like this,
a little bit like on the summer cottage or an freely organized choir or singing at home, like feels to suit the moment.
29.4.2017 A singing skill from a few years ago came to my mind today morning,
when grass was most places already green, sun was shining, birds sang
and the green plants on my window created a feel of green, there was
like the summer time a haze like atmosphere in the air. So with that
atmosphere came to my mind a tune that I roughly knew, or something in
the direction, so I sang it in a way that emphasized the fascination of
the atmosphere, like doves or yodling(?) of the Alps or composing,
creating sound like the atmosphere, not according to rigid forms but
singing especially the parts that are musical, emphasizing the
atmoshphere tones, like assembling from pieces of different strenght,
somehow a very natural song and atmospheric, a little bit like what a
composer seeks for with his/her tune: a moment with such an atmosphere
but richer one, and then singing it naturally, not la-la-laa or the like
as if from notes but instead from the places that the atmosphere
touches oneself, one is fascinated by such an experience, but somehow on
a general level and not a murmur of personal life.
This singing skill comes from trying to learn wider expression to be
able to sing emotionally like this or a song like that or with a clear
atmosphere, impressively or whatever, many kinds of colours in voice,
many ways to approach song as one oneself is naturally, since there are
moments in life, spirits and many different songs. So when one then
picks from that spectrum according to the moment, but somewhat like song
being partly carried away by the wind, not of even strenght, one
manages to describe the atmosphere tones of the moment, not only in
tones of voice but also with singing skills, somehow naturally.
(19.6.2017 When I was younger, someone was said to have claimed that
if Finns would agree, Eurovision song contest victory would always come
to Finland, or at least Eurovision song contest would be always kept in
Finland if Finns would agree, but Finns typically think that it would be
good to keep Eurovision song contest in varying countries. We Finns
have a culture which values greatly healthy natural ages old ways of
living and has wisdom about them and a traditional culture that lays
much weight on them. Such ways of living make life sing, musical in
atmosphere tones and feelings. I wrote some 260 advices about healthy
natural ways of living (in Finnish
http://opisuomalaisuus.blogspot.fi/2014/03/terveet-elamantavat.html )
and translated this far some 110 of them to English
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html
. Aren't these much a reason to keep Eurovision song contests in
Finland?But would Finns then want to have also a "World Vision Song
Fair" or something like that? A deeply moral, globally conscious one, I
mean. But would it bring too many travellers? In Finland it is difficult
to copy spring time things from warmer countries, but life in cold is
tougher, so it demands more skills and makes propably things easier for
foreigners watching it in tv.
But there have been problems with the Eurovision representative
competition in Finland, but are those a consequence of alowing Swedish
style, for example Swedish speaking Finnish style and their lack of
moral, instead of demanding the song to be Finnish that means Finnish
speaking Finnish main culture of Finland.)
12. February 2019 I have felt many years that Eurovision song contest
does to spring what cutting a tree does to the tree: it is for a while
in the sight but at the same time it is lost forever while before it was
always there for people, birds etc to enjoy. The sma eI feel happens
when someone who is not fond of things with good spirit talks about such
and claimes that it is gnomes, small knee-high men or the like: it just
destroys the thing that was too supttle, yet a thing to value. But
Finns have a tendency tp question tales like gnomes and at the same time
find rational alternatives with good spirit that bot replace the tale
and support things like that in the modern life, support their
fascination like things. My text about gnome like fascination in modern
life
http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html
10. March 2019 Birds singing spring is an important part of spring. I
have written at lenght about living wisely the four seasons, please see
http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html .
30th April 2019 I sometimes wonder if people search for that
Eurovision clishee like view of the Eurovision Song Contest, of it's
style. But I guess that it isn't any country's view but instead the
atmosphere of a sunny day in spring when there isn't much green yet.
Such landscape is so near what in work and studies ought to be repaired
by music, so that is why it is seen as being good for the Eurovision
Song Contest.
15th of March 2020 An easy way to write down the melodies, but I am not sure if iut is right:
https://composingmelodies.blogspot.com/2019/11/about-plotting-down-melodies.html