{"id":1756,"date":"2015-06-25T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2018-03-01T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:50:00","slug":"of-time-and-the-pizza-baking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1756","title":{"rendered":"Of Time and the Pizza Baking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started performing, I noticed that I played too fast; because of the adrenalin, I guess. So I learned to take tempos that <!--more-->felt somewhat slow; and after a bit of experience, the concert recordings would confirm that my tempos were what I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Something surprising happened after a few years, though. In my junior year of college, I played \u201cPictures at an Exhibition,\u201d and it felt slow to just the right degree. But when I listened to the tape, I found that it <em>was<\/em> slow. Without my realizing it, my perception of tempo had become accurate!<\/p>\n<p>I still felt performance adrenalin, but its effect on my tempo perception was gone. Since then, my judgment has continued to be reliable.<\/p>\n<p>I do notice, however, that my consciousness still expands in performance. At some point each time, while playing, I\u2019m also imagining a discussion of what toppings should be on the after-concert pizza.<\/p>\n<p>Anchovy?<span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started performing, I noticed that I played too fast; because of the adrenalin, I guess. So I learned to take tempos that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}