Author: mariofvicente

Simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo Da Vinci

The more simple any being is in itself, the more manifold is it in its energy and operation.

Meister Eckhart

Feeding birds

On my balcony. They live in the nearby trees.

In early morning, around 3 to 7 am, there is no car or people traffic outside and we can only hear them chirping as if its country side.

I am hidden behind a curtain so they don’t see me and get scared flying away.

This is why I disapprove of the fireworks in the street (e.g. during New Year, as explained here). It must terrorise these little ones in their tree branches.

Bow physics at high speeds

Kevin Lee, the luthier and violinist recently made a very instructive video about playing at high speeds.
I found it interesting that I happen to have learned the violin based on a method by Maia Bang, a student of Leopold Auer, and I also happen to have been studying the dynamics of the bow at high speeds.
However, my focus has been on using the whole bow. So I decided to share my perspective on this subject.

Modern mythology

If you are not amongst the western elites, there is just one thing you need to understand about the mythology of the “AI takeover” and the “Alien takeover”: they are both parables of the takeover of the western elites by something bigger than them.

An avalanche that will superseed all those incompetents, something compared to which they will look like the Neanderthal before being extinct.

image: Marcio Jose Bastos Silva/Shutterstock

Wedding March

I composed this piece originally for violin. This was intended to be played for a medieval noble wedding, therefore it is formal yet light-spirited.
Here I am playing in a digital piano as this allows me to use a church organ, possibly better aligned with the original design.