Apr 20, 2021

TCHAIK PROJECT 17 - Quarantine pain and musician home office

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And here are the links to all the practice diaries of this PROJECT.



May 18th, 2020 - Monday

3 days without practicing. 3 days with pain in various parts of the body, mostly muscular and in the torso region, both front and behind. I was unable to follow my exercise goal (I even felt real pain the next day this one time!), body asking for-the-love-of-whatever-I-want to go move for real, go walk.


Yesterday I walked. My mask and I went for a walk on a São Paulo Sunday full of people on the street, almost as if it were a normal Sunday. “Do these people also feel pain in their bodies?” At the same time angry because there were so many people on the street and angry to realize I was one of them, I preferred to walk down the small streets behind my house than on Paulista Av., a choice was once obvious. I came back feeling much better.

Apr 14, 2021

TCHAIK PROJECT 16 - Fine tuned observation: needle in the haystack of reasons behind a mistake



May 1st, 2020 - Friday


Labour Day. First day I have activities of the Municipal Symphony Orchestra since we stopped. It will be remote activities that we have to invent ourselves. Video projects for the Theater's social midias. I'm still dealing with ideas and talking to my orchestra colleagues. How atypical are the things of this time! And how important are these actions so we understand in the future what was this pandemic!


- Body warm up

- Centering


Technique Random

- Staccato in the middle of the bow at 70bpm subdividing the beat in 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 notes

- Vibrato

- Half step trills

- 2, 3 and 4 octaves scales in G major, arpeggios and alternate scale in 3 octaves