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From YouTube: Artist Interview: Max Wolpert
Description
Max has taken note of the isolation particularly affecting musicians who are unable to rehearse with colleagues, jam with friends, or perform for an audience. To provide an opportunity to play together while physically apart, he is writing a book of fiddle tunes and online videos to facilitate remote collaborations. Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects was launched by the Office of Arts + Culture and Create Boulder: https://boulderarts.org/public-art/creative-neighborhoods/covid-19-work-projects/
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My
name
is
max
wolpert,
I
am
a
composer
performer
and
teacher
of
music.
I
try
to
stay
involved
in
as
many
different
aspects
of
music
as
I
can.
I
write
music,
mostly
within
the
contemporary
classical
field.
I
do
a
lot
of
orchestrating
and
arranging
my
background
that
originally
is
actually
in
musical
theater
and
as
a
performer,
I'm
primarily
a
traditional
musician,
mostly
working
in
the
american
all-time
tradition
and
as
part
of
being
being
a
part
of
that
community.
It
also
means
being
a
composer
and
an
arranger
of
traditional
music.
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But
at
the
end
of
the
day,
live
performance
cannot
be
replicated
online
and
so
we're
trying
to
do
as
much
as
we
can
to
move
more
towards
recording
and
writing
the
kind
of
music
that
can
be
recorded
and
broadcast
by
one
person
in
a
room.
But
it's
it's
not
the
same
as
as
an
orchestra
concert
or
a
chamber
music
concert
or
a
jam
session
with
dozens
of
people
playing
together
raucously.
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Yeah
well,
and
particularly
for
traditional
music.
I
mean
it
very
much
is
a
communal
experience.
I
mean
the
actual
sound
of
the
music
is
great
and
it's
great
fun
to
listen
to,
but
in
the
old
time
tradition
the
actual
act
of
playing
music
together
is
most
of
the
point,
that's
sort
of
more
important
than
what
the
music
itself
actually
ends
up.
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Sounding
like
the
idea
of
everybody
sitting
around
and
playing
music
together,
that's
the
style,
that's
the
tradition,
that's
sort
of
what
we're
after
and
so
yeah
I
mean
you
can
have
a
bunch
of
people
in
rooms
on
their
own
playing
tunes
and
sending
it
around
to
each
other
and
that's
great,
and
that's
one
of
one
of
the
things
that
I
hope
to
be
able
to
do
with
with
this
project.
But
but
it's
it's
not
the
same.
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One
of
the
things
that
I
noticed
with
my
own
students
for
this
is
that,
even
if
they're
working
out
of
similar
method
books
and
even
if
they're
working
on
the
same
pieces,
if
they
play
different
instruments,
they
can't
actually
play
together
because
method
books
print
those
pieces
in
different
keys.
So
they
don't
actually
work
when
they're
played
at
the
same
time
and
one
of
the
things
that
I
was
working
with
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
my
students,
particularly
the
ones
that
are
in
this
area.
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In
my
neighborhood,
I
work
with
different
siblings
in
the
same
household,
and
these
are
people
who
are
actually
there
together
at
a
time
when
everyone's
isolated,
all
of
their
school
orchestra
concerts,
are
cancelled.
They
can't
play
with
any
of
their
other
colleagues
they're
in
a
house
with
other
musicians
and
they
can't
play
with
them
either,
and
so
a
lot
of
what
we're
wanting
to
do
with
this
is
obviously
there
already
is
a
massive
shared
repertoire
in
the
old
time
tradition
in
the
celtic
tradition
in
the
bluegrass
tradition.
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I'm
gonna
be
making
some
some
some
videos
and
backing
tracks
for
people
to
use
if
they
want
to
play
remotely
play
together
with
the
people
who
are
currently
in
their
household
or
in
their
neighborhood
and
then
hopefully.
Ultimately,
as
things
get
better,
we
can
start
to
actually
bring
things
back
together
to
community
jam
sessions.
Studio
classes,
things
like
this.
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But
the
idea
is
that,
once
this
is
all
done
and
it's
up
on
my
website,
I
can
send
that
around
to
all
of
my
colleagues
who
can
then
share
and
distribute
it
to
their
own
teaching
studios,
and
so
we
can
kind
of
keep
spreading
things
around
and
one
of
the
things
about
this
that
is
kind
of
exciting
for
all
that
it's
not
ideal
to
be
collaborating
solely
via
the
internet.
These
days,
it's
also
really
exciting
to
get
the
opportunity
and
to
have
the
incentive
to
collaborate
with
people
who
are
physically
farther
away.
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Well,
I
mean,
I
think,
it's
really
great,
that
this
is
a
thing
that's
happening.
I
think
it's,
it's
really
fantastic,
that
this
is
a
community
that
that
both
prioritizes
local
artists
to
begin
with,
and
also
recognizes
that
for
people
in
the
arts.
This
crisis
has
been
disproportionately
bad
and
that
it's
also
in
general,
significantly
harder
for
us
to
access
institutional
support
for
those
of
us
who
are
self-employed
or
who
work
almost
exclusively
as
contractors.