What is art for me? What is an analog?

Life today is very much about the Internet. I don’t like this area of my life. Being far from people close to me, it is difficult to live in a different way. Being a self-employed person, in addition, an artist, it is not easy to live an analog life either. And yet the profession that fate has chosen for me, or rather professions, show how valuable it is for me to live without technology.

The music played live gets to me the most. It is nothing out of the ordinary. But the power of analog sound, the kind that comes directly from an instrument, directly from a person, is the most beautiful to me. Singing in a choir or conducting it is something that, for me, is the most beautiful form of analog music-making. I sink in. I am not there. I am somewhere else. I achieve this state several times a week and I feel that it becomes addictive. I feel like an athlete striving to win the Olympics, or a Himalayan on the way to reaching his dream peak. I have a profession incredibly overflowing emotions. It’s how many of those I have inside me that guarantees sharing those emotions during a concert. As a player, as a conductor. I am where I am supposed to be.