29/10 Jonny Greenwood

     

         I like listen and make music a lot, and play instruments. of these I prefer to play guitar, because I got familiar with it. Is for that I usually admire some musicians, specially guitarist. Jonny Greenwood is the principal guitarist of a band called Radiohead, one of my favorite bands. But Jonny don´t play only guitar: he plays piano, several kinds of keyboards and synth, a strange instrument called ondes Martenot, bass, banjo... well, a lot of instruments. In spite of that, I don't admire him for the number of instruments that he plays, I admire him for his compositions, his form of play the instruments and make original and magnificent melodies or harmonies, and how he influenced the sound of Radiohead on his most celebrated albums.

     I know Jonny since I became to listen Radioheads music, about four or five years ago. Immediately I became fan of the band, and listened all his albums. The first thing that attract my attention was the sound of the Jonny Greenwood guitar, and then the forms of composition of the band. With the time, reading about the band on internet, I notice about the important influence of Jonny on the final result of the songs of the band, together with Tom Yorke, and I became a fan of his sound and form of play guitar.

         If I got to know him, I would ask him about his sound, how he reach this, with what. I would ask him for stay in the recordings of the new album of Radiohead until they finish it. I would be very happy with that.

22/10 Environmentalism

I haven't incorporated recycling in my life, never. I think that I should, but i have not dedicated yet. I think that is important to be more aware with the environment, and try to do things for that. I have not joined to any eco-organizations, because I have not informed about the values and practices that it implies. Something that I would to be to help the planet is do not contribute to the contamination. I would not like to buy a car, for example, or buy an electric car. Meanwhile I try to use recyclable things, for not contribute to make unnecessary rubbish.

In Santiago seems that nobody, or not much people, is worry about the environment, including me. The streets are a lot of time with rubbish and the people dirty constantly. The government doesn’t make it better. To see a real change, I think that we need to take radical decisions, like discontinue the use of combustible, in favor of renewable energy, and begin to envelope "green" technology. Also provide accessible forms to recycle and promote the use of recyclable things. Protect the green areas in the cities and in the world would be an important point to preserve the environment.

In conclusion we are too far to have an aware society about the environment, but inevitably we will be taken by force to take care of the world, when the impact of human contamination becomes irreversible.

08/10 Free: Listen music

One of the things that I spend more time in the day is listen music. I like a lot of styles an genres of music, but I have some preferences: I'm a fanatic of alternative rock, and all of this subgenres. This kind of music was principally enveloped on 90' decade, and the most important bands had their creative and popularity peak in these years. It was a period characterize for a resistance against the mainstream music enveloped in the past years, that was focus in be popular and commercial. The idea of alternative rock was create a music with no conventional elements, with unusual structures and new sounds, for ignore the forms of mainstream music, that was the most diffused.  Several genres and styles of music was developed for this, like grunge, shoegaze or the inclusion of noise.  I like All of these.

Definitely, that I search in this music, and in the music in general, is new possibilities to think music. I like listen new or unexpected things, but always thinking about the final result, in how the musician mixed the sounds to make and get a particular esthetic. It wasn't always like that. When I was a child, I became to listen music with groups of classical and popular rock of the 60' and 70' decades. I usually listened bands like The Beatles, Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin, bands that was very popular and a reference for the mainstream music. I was very closed minded, but with the passing of time, I opened my eyes and became to listen other kinds of music. Now I'm always listen new groups and searching new sounds.

01/10 About a present

It was very easy to me choose a present that was important to me. About near four years ago, my father gave to me my first electric guitar. Well, it wasn’t really my first ever, because I have had another electric guitar, that was given by my aunt in very poor conditions, and that was fixed up by me. This first guitar really sucks; it was shabby, uncomfortable, and sounded bad. I couldn't do many things with it, but with the new guitar I could play more time and in better conditions, more comfortable and with a sound that was chosen by me. I remember the day that I went to buy the guitar with my father and with a friend. I tried many different guitars, with different sounds and systems, in different prices and forms, and with different amplifiers. I spent the whole morning in the store. At the end of the day, I had to choose a guitar that had the best sound in an accessible price, because the budget wasn't much. Finally, I chose my actual, and although isn't very expensive, it has a sound that liked me for a very long time. Now, I play with this guitar always that I can, I play it in many opportunities with bands and it had served me to discover new sounds possibilities. I have so many memories with it, memories that, I hope, keep rising.