The latest articles on Music Forem by Agustin Faundez Rojas (@agustin_faundez). https://music.forem.com/agustin_faundez https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3084784%2F58fdd928-3063-4098-aa8f-c01ac204d2a0.png https://music.forem.com/agustin_faundez en Agustin Faundez Rojas Wed, 14 May 2025 15:33:10 +0000 https://music.forem.com/agustin_faundez/hi-hi-im-agustin-a-musician-most-of-the-time-4p83 https://music.forem.com/agustin_faundez/hi-hi-im-agustin-a-musician-most-of-the-time-4p83 <p>Hi hi, I'm Agustin, long-time friend of <a class="mentioned-user" href="https://dev.to/jess">@jess</a>, fellow musician and educator in the field. I think it's wonderful to have or try to develop some sort of sense of community through an online posting board beyond youtube and instagram comments of a video. I think thoughts regarding music are much more vast than a short paragraph we may want to write in reaction to a video of someone playing amazingly or not. </p> <p>When I think back on my particular interests of making music, teaching music, creating music, expressing ourselves in music I tend to think of a core <strong>wish</strong> for kindness that is primarily at the forefront of each musical interaction. Yet this wish I think is rarely what is taught, seen, or felt in "professional" interactions that I have had, both towards me, but also between other musicians within a group. Happy to be corrected if wrong, and in fact deeply wish these have been isolated incidents. But I'm not sure.</p> <p>I actually wrote my whole Master's Music thesis on this, the role of people-centered music-making and the characteristics of communication within music-making environments. However, this wasn't the case last week. After almost 20 years in this field, I still got unfortunately tangled into watching one of these ego-driven, self-righteous, no-room-for-empathy-in-opinion, unfounded-hegemonic arguments take place in my own studio space. </p> <p>Needless to say I could no longer be in this kind of environment, but it left me questioning: "what is it within the wide spectrum of professionality and ability of a musicians that can commonly lead to these dogmatic views of right or wrong, lack of more empathic communication, rushed product-based expectations?" How can we approach music-making and teaching jobs and gigs to have the opposite of those aspects, and in complete accordance to this thread, how can we actually create more community between musicians/educators/creators?</p> <p>Yeah... I dunno. 20 years and I still don't get it.</p> <p>Maybe someone can chime in?</p> discuss introduction