The subway produces an immediate reaction to the performing, and
let's face it, people that are commuters don't have time to hang out necessarily,
so the relationships that are made in the subway are usually fast but it's
always a gift to be able to connect with somebody in the subway system
because we're from all over the world and we have so much to offer to each other
I had a perfectly fine life before I had to interface with the computer.
The fact that in the music world that you could
announce your band by going around town
and putting up your posters, the fact that there were cameras every
single place and then people picking up whatever they see within the camera as
being the truth, the fact that the people would join together and build the energy
that the performer was creating and everybody had a great time and remembered
it in their heart rather than remembering it in their hand.
All these things I miss.
It seemed like time was longer because we weren't getting these little tidbits
of things where you feel like you're not getting everything, that you're not there,
that you're missing out.
You're not missing out, your life is your life.
So I
certainly miss that, I try to incorporate that into what I do now
and try to present myself in the moment and hopefully the people that understand
that share that moment with me and we share things together.
I don't consider myself a musician in the least
I never have.
I would say with this act
I would call myself a social instigator
As far as gifts I've gotten, strange gifts as to say, two rolls of toilet paper
and an artichoke and another time I received an unopened condom and a
calculator from the same person, so it runs the gamut and that's what
makes it one of the most rewarding of spaces to play I think in the entire world.
And the main reason that I do this particular exercise is for my health.
The second reason that I do it is to connect to my mother, who had Alzheimer's,
and she enjoyed singing and when I perform with the didgeridoo I can hear
overtones in the tube that I feel that sometimes I hear my mother's voice, so I
feel like I'm spending time with her and connecting to her.
I do miss my mother
and I would say the greatest gift that she gave me, being that she had
Alzheimer's, was to understand the gift of the moment.
So, long live my mother.
Being in the moment is about recognizing breath, really, and also in a rhythmic way
because the lungs and the heart are working together, and the heart is the
first rhythmic-feeling emotion and sound that we hear inside our mother's womb, so
connecting back allows us then to come out and experience the universe and the
surroundings that we're in and then to relate to each other
and be a part of each other's experience in that moment.
Oh and my name is Marc Mueller.
StreetMule.
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