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Maxwel Ch

About Me

Well, what can I say? I am an aspiring pianist, you could say. I am seventeen years of age, and I began seriously playing music at the age of fifteen. I play the piano, saxophone, flute, oboe, and clarinet, and I really couldn't live without my music.
Now that you have a physical and historical (I suppose) description of me, if you really want to know me, just go to the box above this and click on the right-pointing arrow. That will tell you more about me than anything else in the world.
Now, if you're still reading this, I assume you're quite bored and you have nothing better to do. Allow me to entertain you, then. My governing philosophy, especially over my musical work, is Taoism. That, as you may know, is the whole "yin-yang" deal. The governing principle of said doctrine of thought is balance. Without dark, there can be no light, and without light, there can be no dark. Light intrinsically can never be pure light untainted by dark, and dark can never be sheer darkness undiluted by light. The same goes with order and chaos. Usually I write songs in pairs - one orderly, perhaps borrowing from Philip Glass's minimalist style, and the other chaotic, perhaps nabbing an idea or so from Scriabin. It reminds me of an archaic Chinese myth which describes a world of united balance and chaos. The creatures of chaos evidently subjugated the people of order, until the Yellow Emperor sealed the chaos creatures into mirrors and forced them to take the form of the person who gazes into the mirror. My aim is to, through music, unleash those creatures of chaos back into reality.
Now, if you're still reading, it's time to stop.
Rhapsody in C Minor, Opus 1
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Odyssey - Winter 08 Recital
I also enjoy the visual arts venue, especially the niche of fractal art.


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My Interests

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Member Since: 8/9/2007
Influences: Beethoven, Bach (both J.S. and C.P.E.), Keith Emerson, Hiromi Uehara, Vladimir Horowitz, Max Welch, Robert Fripp, Franz Liszt, Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, Stephen Hawking, M.C. Escher, IGOR STRAVINSKY, Frank Zappa, Glenn Gould
Sounds Like: I sound like me. Really, I don’t know how to describe my sound! Just listen. . . And remember, my policy for improv is "No edits, no retakes!"

Record Label: 138
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A Lovers Embrace

   It’s nighttime. The stars are glistening... almost quivering in the sky. The moon sheds its lucid and lurid light on her, illuminating her angelic figure. Your heart skips a beat.&n...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:05:00 GMT

Its sort of disgusting...

   The hideous quagmire of romances that teenagers find themselves stuck in up to the neck - they disgust me in a thousand ways. All the same, it’s fascinating - these people are somet...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:40:00 GMT

Balance

I suppose one must always have balance in one's life. If one's life was spent in constant rapture, what would the rapture be worth? A spell of depression and ennui makes that joy all the sweeter to be...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:32:00 GMT

Life is good

People spend so much time complaining in every way that they never stop to observe. A great deal of the time, they never seem to realise about what they are complaining. I understand that I, too, am c...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:23:00 GMT

Order and Chaos

   I realise now that my extemporaneous performance has been at worst a mess and at best technically pleasing yet disorganised.   I see that music, even if complex, must have an un...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:04:00 GMT

Business as Usual

The weekend is here, and the hectic school week-from-hell has ended. I can finally play some music this weekend, and I hope to have a new piece posted sometime in the foreseeable future. Not that my w...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:01:00 GMT

My Goal in Life

Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata no. 29 in B flat major, Opus 106, "Hammerklavier".   If you haven't heard of it, look it up.      If you haven't heard it, find a ...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:11:00 GMT

Putting one’s Heart into one’s Doings

   I was reciting a piece to my mother (J.S. Bach's Two Part Invention 1) when she made an unsettling, yet very true comment about my performance : "I know what's wrong with your music - you...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:25:00 GMT