in a whole better place than i was in at the start of the weekend, worked yesterday and was still a little not there, worked out that i hadn't slept properly since thursday...
was just round at manolis's ate well, then he offered me some watermelon, which was lovely, then a friend of his offered me some cypriot grappa... i can't remember what they called it but it was just like the italian drink... clear, strong...
asking manolis if he'd had one:
i've had one glass and i'm smiling,
if i have another i'll be laughing,
if i have a third...
cypriot grappa alternating with bits of watermelon... hmmm
then in the warm glow that that gave me i went over to the clerks factory shop on seven sisters road and picked out the 2005/2006 longcat shoe... missed josiah just a bit as she was always the one who helped me decide in that shop... a nice lace-up blue suede affair, trainerish...
spoke with josiah after and have decided to go down there to see the pair of them tomorrow for the day... way too long since i've seen my goddaughter... and tonight i'm off to see felinity and dad, he's in town buying mum's birthday present... annual thing...
and then this piano symmetry... it came out of teaching about modes last thursday, always a tricky subject... the riskiest of those sessions i teach in that module, being the furthest out we go in terms of music theory, and the nature of the group i'm teaching to means it doesn't completely make sense to everyone...
anyway i was thinking about scales afterwards, about the structure of the major scale - tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone... (last year on the same course i had a tony... it made me laugh all year, he didn't find it quite so funny)... and what scale would have the same structure coming down...
so on sunday i sat at my fender rhodes piano and played through some scales to find out... it became clear to me that each scale would have another scale associated with it which was it's mirror image, i found that for all the major modes the mirror image was another major mode except for the dorian mode, which was it's own mirror image...!
one example of the dorian mode is played from D to D using only the white notes...
and i appreciate that this may be a little tricky to follow, i apologise,
following on from this i noticed that the note D on the piano (in between the two black notes), is a point of symmetry for the keyboard, if you put a mirror in the centre of the note D and looked along the keyboard at it, the keyboard would look right...also the note Ab is a point of symmetry...
i love this... the piano keyboard is so a part of my life... finding a new way to look at it, to percieve it... hmmm
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