In the Spirit of Music

Before I begin, let me first mention- This is my actual first post on the club blog. Everything else before-hand, and what follows is for fun.

This is Wei Xin writing here, and I intend to write something... Meaningful. In the least.

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This first post that I'll be making is actually all that I would like my fellow a Cappella members to read through, and seriously consider in the coming months of work towards our september concert.

The following are my thoughts, my concepts and my decisions I have made in light of our club. Also, some dreams and aspirations for polytechnics in general.

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a Cappella; literally meaning, in the manner of a chapel. Unaccompanied music, created through the use of voices that we are born with. Voices we learn to use, voices that will live with us from the day we are born to the day we die.

So; what is an a Cappella group? I've said that we want to gear ourselves towards being a contemporary a Cappella group, but lo and behold, we find ourselves singing more formal, choral works!

Before I get ahead of myself, forget about the concert we're preparing for.
Forget that our attendance is pretty pitiful on a constant basis.
Forget everything else, and remember your own concept of music, your concept of musicianship.

How many of us call ourselves musicians before anything else? How many of us live for music? An honest question we have to ask ourselves- as a cappella members, as singers, what are we in it for?

Let me explain from the point I'm most familiar with- myself.

I only seriously started in music last year. 2006 was an interesting year, such that I was singing with Xing! and playing in a worship band as well. After I started training with Joe, I ended up spending at least 4 days a week practicing one form of music or the other. I trained with the Ngee Ann Polytechnic a Cappella group. I performed with the old SPChoir during Christmas, had a band gig in december as well.

But in everything, there's always been this urge to go further with my music. Not so much in just learning new songs, but innovating, expressing and developing something I can call my own. Identity, some may call it. I call it Music.

Music's in life- there's no doubt about it. All our lives, we try to find the melody in our own paths. There's a melody out there we need to find, and hopefully, we'll find someone who'll sing his or her own melody as well- all the while complementing our own. But that's subject for a later post.

So what do we, or at least, what do I want to do in the Voices?

I want to create a place where musicians can come together and share their voices to create music together. I want to create a place where everyone can give and take, where everyone can share this essence of music together, and learn something to carry with them for the rest of their lives.

We're fresh- true. We're ambitious- true. We're able- also true. Heck, we're still young- there's alot we can do without KOing halfway.

There's more to write, but I can't form it at the moment.

At the end of things; here's what I would like to say-

We may not be there yet, but we'll get there someday. All we need to do is stick together, weather the bad times, and enjoy the music we make. Come back, keep coming back, and we'll make music together.