This is fun. It's like a musical ecosystem, like the kind that sometimes arises in different places, like New Orleans, Seattle, Liverpool. It's talent night for the whole world and it runs the gamut. Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, me too ..we're all here. I'm glad there seems to be an unending demand for new music. It's like a commodity, it gets used. And in the process it modifies the way we perceive - not just music. My current favorite musician is Roscoe Holcomb (1912-1981), a mountain musician of Appalachia. He explored the frequency spectrum the way we explore our universe, looking for seams, places unresolved, perhaps a door to greater understanding. Good music is good music. I don't make a distinction between folk art and classical composition. Ultimately, music is exactly as good as it sounds.

I've been making music a pretty long time. I've had some good bands and some good gigs. But as far as recording, which is what I really enjoy doing, long ago I found the music biz to be a jungle -no place for me. It's a different landscape today. People have direct access to music and record companies are optional. I'm really glad to be making new music and very appreciative of my listeners.

Many of the songs on this channel need some reworking / remastering before being put on a CD. There are a few singles available now on Amazon mp3, iTunes, etc. under the artist name Play Innocent. Play Innocent is the name of this project, like a band with both real and imaginary components. I do a lot of multitasking. Maybe a real-time act will come together with the right players, maybe not. But it all reduces to a function of one variable. The amplitude varies with time and it's over in a few minutes -just like our lives. Everything else is spawned in the mind of the beholder. So hey hey we're Play Innocent, people say we're playing (innocently) around. But we may be coming to your town.

The usual paradigm is for the musician to have some emotion, then turn it into sound using a gadget that may have been high-tech a few hundred years ago. Then the listener hears it and experiences that emotional statement. That's all well and good, but I'm not sure I have anything to add using solely that approach. Everything I do has some experimental variable. And like all experiments, sometimes the results are more interesting than others. I'm very interested in the psychology of music and the phenomenon of popular recorded music. But, of course, I hate most pop music today, exactly because it's not part of a natural process. Some company promotes some horrible noise and music consumers are modeled as firmware.

I hope you hear something new here. It's pretty far from mainstream. This is just where I ended up -in some remote tributary and not exactly sure what it turns into. I like sharing thoughts with other musicians and really appreciate feedback from listeners. And I'm looking for a few good subscribers, so please don't hesitate if you like the music.

Beethoven said "Whoever truly understands my music is free from the miseries that haunt the world." I'm not sure I believe Ludwig's boast but, regarding my own music, I would say simply "Whoever gets into this should have a few more endorphins released during the workday". I think music-making is more of a discovery than a composition. But that guy Beethoven, and his friend Tchaikovsky -they're my very favorite singer-songwriters.

Knowing I'm somewhere else
I sit on the kitchen shelf
My child is to my left
My wife is to my right
My life is to the shelf
as a boat is to a poem about the ocean
twice removed, beyond harm
like the pictures sent back from Mars
I know it's not good
to worry about tomorrow
Each day has enough trouble of its own
but when I stare into the eyes
of those who love me
I swear, my troubles just can't be found.
K Mahlmann © 2012 all right reserved