What She Said
This blog is one of the innumerable ongoing attempts to capture what we are now living through and our reactions to it. People are finding other ways to journal and record their lived experience in the pandemic. Some amateurs sing, dance, play instruments, and capture that on a video posted to YouTube. Some pros or semi-pros cobble together virtual performances of choral or orchestral music or dance.
Still others turn to TikTok, which I understand is the favored social media of those from 9 to 16 years old. Though the focus might have moved on by now, what do I know?
This particular TikTok, from a young music teacher, is just about my favorite 30 seconds of the entire sheltering-in-place so far. (Click below or on the image.)
♬ an original song by @makeshift.macaroni
I can’t agree more – what she said!
I added one more link into the piece. Just finished watching Eric Abramovitz play his own arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue for 7-part woodwind ensemble – with him playing all of the parts.
This MIT Technology Review piece documents a number of other efforts to preserve the lived ephemera from this time.
“Now, recording thoughts freeform on an Instagram live session, posting art on Tumblr, or choreographing a meme-y dance for TikTok all fulfill the same function as journaling: commemorating an experience and expressing its effect on you. In theory, these creative efforts should form a ready-made repository of crucial information about this period and how we lived through it.”