A few days ago a grey dove collided with my window. It flew to a nearby tree and I sang to it something about how nature, the songs of the green trees around can cure. I also tried to compose a melody about that.
The wonderful beautiful songs of trees, drowning to their world like swimming in a quite warm pond.
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21.1.2024 Jos nuori eläin tms on eksynyt sisätiloihin, katso https://ampiaiset.blogspot.com/2024/01/mita-tehda-jos-nuori-elain-tai.html
I went to see the climate cgange demonstratio in Helsinki today. Afterwatds it came to my mindcto tryvto compose about it, but I haven't had tge dkill to compose lately, so tgat I am not sure of the note lenghts, and also otherwise the notes were kind of vague.
I have in Finnish two blogs about solving environmental questions.
From my textSkills of Christmas gnomes learntalents.blogspot.com
" I 49. I wondered how to see or experience the landscape like music, and made this melody to help in it, but lately I haven't been musical at all.
D, F, A, H, F, D, F#, A
and another melody to make the landscape more emotional, with spirits of things
F, A, H, G, E, D, F#, A, E
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But I have been lately ill. After my poofle died I have gotten ill if I try to eat meat, fish or the like, stomach pain etc.
It is spring and birds sing. A cloudy day yet quite light, somewhat cool aftera few warm days, already medium sized leaves on trees.
1st of July 2021 Lately I haven't had the skill to compose. I wonder if it is influence from some who cannot compose at all, for examply from some in the tropics. But generally one's experience of life sings where one has hobbies and personal interest in the subjects.
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24th of January 2022 These two melodies from last spring might have been in one song in this yesr's UMK22 competition for the eurovision song of Finland. But I am not sure of that. Lately ihaven't been musical.
18.4.2022
I do not quite know which genre my melodies belong to, but it might be classical or folk. On the other hand as younger I listened to rock and world music.
Ut is two weeks since my 12 years old apricot coloured miniature poodle died, and I made a melodyvto help others, but I was just thinking of my poodle Banjo, so propably the melody isn't at a so general level.
" G, F, D, F, A, upper C, H, A,G,D, F
I tried to compose something about how to reach a singing experience of life by one's viewpoint and approach if one is stuck like I have been for the last year, which appears to resemble the ways of the tropics. And how to sing such state of mind and experience of life with varied atmospheres and colours etc in voice, so that one composes so of the subjects in one's life. But as said, I have not been lately good at all in this, but maybe now that I live in the capitak duistrict it will be easier, since sports and recreation in the nature are more easily available here.
D, E, F, D and A, of which the first and last are quite long andf the others quick, the first three ought to be one bunch while the fourth separate.
22,2,2021 Here is roughly the same as a note:
I moved a week ago from Savonlinna to Espoo. We here live very much in town, but my poodle had as young puppies with a wolf in Savonlinna, Pihlajaniemi. So as he some days ago wanted me to make a children's book like he instructed - it was early morning and I guess he half dreamed it - and I wrote about it to his blog http://villakoiraBanjo.blogspot.com . Today morning some 20 to seven I saw a dark figure like a large dog with quite thick tale run in an angle across the street here where it is mainly houses and some trees, and my poodle Banjo said it was a wolf, and I guess that it was interet´sted in the children's book of my poodle Banjo. Banjo has a tendency to such hobbies, so his animal friends might have such hobbies too. Later I tried to compose about the wolf, my poodle wished so. But I have computer problems, so here is the melody in letters:
D (1/8 note), D&F (half note), G (1/4), A (1/2), E (1/4), D (1/2), E&G (1/2), A (1/8), G (1/2), E (1/8), D (1/4) and E&G (1/2).
This is in town in Postipuuntie in Puustellinmäki near Leppävaara railway station in eastern Espoo. Sp this is not a countryside road at all.
9.2.2021 I managed to load the picture of the note to computer:
( 20.2.2021 I tried to follow the tv program where Finland's Eurovision song was chosen, but I had computer problems. So later I managed to listen to the chosen song by Blind Channel from Oulu. It was called Dark side, and it sounded somewhat like a quite small companion dog, a big black dog and maybe this melody of mine about a wolf in Postipuuntie in Espoo in southern Finland. )
22.2.2021 When I saw the wolf, it was like twilight time. I guess that it was so early that it was still dark but there were streetlights. The wolf looked quite dark but not black, so I guess that it was grey. In the darkest time in the beginning of winter the daylight time plus twilight times were together in Savonlinna some six hours, while in the Midsummer the night is so light that one can see the colours, and it lasts only some 3 or 4 hours there. So north are we. Here it is quite much the same but not exactly as much varied daylenght time lenght, since here we are some 200 km souther.
I wrote about the wolf also to my long text "Skills of Christmas gnomes" learntalents.blogspot.com G27. and G44., maybe G45. too. I wonder if that has interested readers.
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I wrote to my last year's Eurovision melody's blog post:
"25th of February 2021 If this melody of mine was last year's Finland's Eurovision song, that is very public, so maybe I ought to mention here my other texts. Especially since there has been an epidemy, I guess I ought to mention my blogs about curing: https://curingguesses.blogspot.com/2018/12/index-with-cure-suggestions-after-word.html and in Finnish parantamisesta.blogspot.com , since my name Tervola means roughly "healthy" and is said to teach one to be a skilled healer, and it seems that those blogs of mine about curing make it easier to get well quickly, so they are worth trying, but I do not any experience in curing, just in writing. I have also written teaching material to help in life otherwise, one could for example check the numerous links at learntalents.blogspot.com . My most important text is my paradise theory which makes cyclic view on timepossible 2013paradise.blogspot.com . Noteworthy are also my thinking course quickerlearning.blogspot.com and my text about the future opf computers, see the first post at feelingcomputers.blogspot.com . Otherwise I have written mainly on subjects around the rationality of feelings."
7th of March 2021 This Wolf melodia was at Postipuuntie = "post tree street" in Espoo.
Here the view from teh same window one moth later, but the spring has
alreadys tarted, so the snow has largely melted and only during the last
days it has rained some snow again. When I saw the wolf it was dark but
there were street lights. The building at the left on the other side of
the street is Kinderkarten and next to it is school of the lowest
classes. The supposed wolf galloped slowly at a tilted angle from the
left to the other side of the street and seeméd to jump over piles of
snow or to them at the other side of the street bed´hind cars. It semed
interested in teaching the younger generation of humans some civiliced
wisdom for life.
19.3.2021 So the wolf melody is just my notes I marked up how the wau the wolf lived sang. I made the melofy right after deeing thexwolf. O thought I could maybe remember so better what the wolf was like when it crosded the street. So it is not my view of wolves, but instead some melody of the wolf himself. And I did nit plan ut for Eurovision, but onstead just sdded ut to my bligs. It is about a wolf in an environment that is not good for him, an environment of houses, streets and cars, much dominated by humans.
20thof March 2021 The wolf seemed outside it's living environment. It seemed go think thst all of it's living environment should be untouched nature, without any manmade things, and so the streets, houses, cars etc made a kind of kkrraahh like sound, appeared harsh for it and it thought that there were only fractions of the nature remaining in there being snow and trees. So it is quite unlikely that wolves would pften move in town areas.
21st of March 2021 From my long text about the skills of Christmas gnomes http://learntalents.blogspot.com
" H25. When I moved to Postipuuntie in Espoo, it was winter and cold and lots of snow. Near by there is a big stream or a very small river, and ut was very beautiful as snowy, but I did not photograpf it since such a place was new to me, I did not know such nature and so I couldn't have gotten it right. Byt anyway, when there was a fuss about my wolf melody, the snowy dtream brought to my mind pictures of wolves in the nature, and at home I made this melody, but zi did not get the lenghts of the notes to it.
A D F E G A D F# G H A D F# upperC H D F#
""F36. Composing a hymn is a different thing, but I guess that one can use the same piece of advice about how to produce a melody like the atmosphere. As far as I understadn, a hymn is the atmosphere of some place where there is frcatureless nature and it's wisdom emphasizes virtues needed in a good society, and offers some view of how such fractyureless atmospheric society is possiblke, what it is build upon and what it is like in at,osphere, and that is composed: some moment wandering there, like Finlandia Hymn is about skiing on sunny spring winter landscape somewhere in nature with open spaces and trees and lots of snow, and somehow that fracturelessness is a good model for society yet familiar for almost all."
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F35. I just learned how to compose an ode to someone that one loves. I had been composing today earlier after a long pause, and I sat looking at my apricot poodle Banjo, which was laying and looking, and I thought of saying to it how magnifient to live witha poodle with such fine characteristics as he has, but so I sang the atmosphere of that feeling or thought, and then plotted the melody down somehow, but it is was somewhat Russian sounding melody.
"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."
"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"
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http://learntalents.blogspot.com
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22.12.2020 I do not have the skill to compose right now, but on the two above pieces I had it. But reflecting on odes, I think that one ought to compose about large wholes like areas of life and as other wholes something like nice to get along and what kind of way of life there is, it's well functioning parts. Like a tree with fallen leaves underneath has a space around it, like wise these ought to have space for them so that they do not get squeezed while you compose but instead keep their form in peace. And just the sense of atmospheres is important,plus feelings and sensations.
If you compose to a family member or the like, those valued things are parts of your daily life, so that if you meet them only for a moment, you have quite strong and undisturbed atmosphere on them, and that you can compose. And yesterday it appeared that such is good to sing the moment one composes, comes to think of it for the first time, it has some fascination as sung. But it may depend strongly on the person about whom it is and about who sings, so it may be that it is not so widely interesting in to others. Yet it is a nice experience. At www.noteflight.com you can plot down melodies.
One could also sing this way how nice it is to do something together, for example a hobby. Or compose about kids' hobbies. Or how some company is nice. And maybe those could be on a general level. Maybe one could also just compose about some hobby like action, how it is fun.Maybe that would have a wider level of generality.
A melody to my blog http://wakingfromdeath.blogspot.com , where the idea was to synchronoze lives afyter death so that one could continue life as if someplace had not been bombed. But it was based on wishing well in a civiliced way,so here is an attempt at building such good will, if such was lacking in the country due to not so good moral, or something of the kind. Here the idea was that one ought to keep distance, without being personally involved, and so it would be easier.
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E33. 21st of December 2020 Winter Solstice Winter solstice is to
be lived quite quietly, normal life but paying attrention to that
symbolics would not go badly, for example not drinking unusually much
black coffee but drinking coffee with milk isntead if such is closer to
one's normal symbolics, since some think that such symbolics can be used
to partly ruin some parts of the coming year. Winter solstice isn't the
darkest day of the year, since darkness of the day depends on the
cloudiness only and of whether there is snow. Snow lightens even the
night to twilight with no big darkness. Wiunter solstice is the
shortest day of the year, and that is why the time around it is called
the darkest time of the year, even though Christmas is so near that it
kind of lightens the atmosphere. Winter solstice is also a time to pay
attention to what one thinks and especially to things that tend to
affect atmosphere, since sometimes when one thinks of for example
someone who has recently died, that may ruin the atmosphere, while the
coming Christmas may make it a normal day, but such depends on the
people around, how they take the winter solstice, what they happen to
think about it. Winter solstice is depending on teh year either 21st or
22nd of December. Winter solstice is a time to reflect on the lenght of
the day: how it varies so much across the year that the difference in
the amount of sun light affects weathers so much that it creates the
seasons which affect life hugely. And soon it will be Christmas. And
quite in the beginning of Januatry one already notices how mornings get
light earlier and earlier each morning.
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http://learntalents.blogspot.com
In fact I only wrote about the winter solstice, but then in my email was a newsletter from music grants, and I guessed that they would have liked music about winter solstice, so I gave it a try, even though I haven't had my composing skill lately at all - it might be influencies from the Eurovision song contest, since it seems that my piece of music about harmony of people from different continents was Finland's Eurovision song this year, but due to an epidemy the contest was cancelled.
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E18. 5th of October 2020 I have now lived 11 years in Savonlinna, which is a countryside town in Savo in eastern Finland, and is famous for it's summer time opera festival in a medieval castle in the center of the town, and for the vast lake and forest district Saimaa around which has lots of summer cottages. So it is kind of practical life with arts and nature and some religion too. As I moved to Savonlinna, I had had a way of life and wisdom of life that brought happy life in such things, but as I have lived in Savonlinna, my life has been mostly centered in writing and I haven't been so happy. But today I tried to find that perspective of happy life, even though I have lately been stuck and stupid, but I gave it a try anyway and oproduced these two pieces:
F, D, very quick E, long A
D, very quick E, F, quick D, long A
But I do not know if it suits other places, even though it might,since Savonlinna is a tourist town. But anyway it is only about searching for that perspective of happiness, not about happiness itself.
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From my long text about learning the skills of Christmas gnomes http://learntalents.blogspot.com
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18.4.2022 Espoossa Tämä on tosin videon tietojen mukaan vanha kappale, mutta oli kuin sävelmässä olisi ollut samaa ideaa, sekä ehkä vuoden takaa keväältä 2021 sävelmä, kun suren villakoirank kuolemaa mutta muisto jää tai jokin henkinen yhteys, jos kuolemanjälkeinen elämä on llemassa.
During the last summer 2020 and now in teh begoinning of autumn I havenät had the skill to compose music. I have just had tyoo much influences from people from the tropics. It is also so that if one reaches for some goal, that motivation gives better quality, while if one has succeeded in something that one values and others value too, then it is liuke a celebration day wit boredom, just noyt good for work or ordinary life, and so it is not good for composing either.
Some think that composing music is some kind of present, a position like a contract with a music publisher. But it is not so. For music to soiund like music the experienmce if life needs to be very much the same as that of others on a general level that is, so that when they listen to the mysuc their life sings similarly too and they find those same kinds of things meaningful in their lives. So the possibiliuty for composing many have, but all do not have enough wisdom of life to communicate interestingly to many and all do not have the skill of composing. That skill is just a singing experience of life which you can learn by having a fun sports hobby and having a music hobby too, listening to music in the radio etc. In addition one needs the ability to either sing and recors or play or recognize the notes of the melody, which I learned from little birds. Different people make different kind of music and often hearing different kinds of music is enjoyable, so others too composing isn't away from oneself. One cannot earn anything by composing, the sums are much smaller than the effect of people having opinions about what you have done, much smaller than wage.
After I staryted composing spring 2019 my writing work of some twenty years has run into problems. Maybe someone thinks that I should chagnge my profession to comoposing. But I feel that I cannot separate the two, a composer too needs a life and peace, a place in the world and money too, which is much more likely from writing than from composing.
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7th of December 2020 Now that it is a year since I composed my winter melodies, I notice that the music is like a picture made of tunes, while the experience of life from which iI composed the melodies was a landscape, snow all around, and the cold against which body created heat was a major element of the situation. Those were very much like a picture plus atmospheres but abotu daily life and winter, not a tune in itself, but so much having an atmosphere that it sings. So that I need to think of the music as separate of how I experienced the weather. It is also different from how my experience of life sang, which was more all around and my body too, instead of one thing at a time, and more personal instead of some music that someone else plays. So I guess that the notes a composer makes are much more distant than the original source of the melodies in experience of life.
