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- "Magic" is many things to many people. From what I've seen, too many magicians are still caught up in the image of a guy in a spangled waiter tuxedo pulling a rabbit out of a hat to circus music. I know most of them now use music that sounds like 1980's techno and where solid, primary colored tuxedos, but the basic image is still the same. I think to be a great magic artist, you have to focus on what image magic brings to your own mind.
- For me, I usually see an adventure seeking character battling a "curse" left by some ancient culture that was more in tune with the natural elements then we are today. I see nature as the most powerful force there is, and so magic is the only thing that can conquer it. The problem is that magic is actually a part of nature, not a seperate entity to itself, so the magician does not actually control nature, but rather has learned better than most how to live within it. This is where the drums come in.
- I have played drums for as long as I have been a magician. In the context of my magic, the drum represents the cycles and rythems by which natural forces operate. These rythems are seen throughou nature,including in rising and falling tides, changes of the seasons, and solar and lunar cycles. Even our own births and deaths are controlled by natural cycles over which we have no real control. Since no one can control these rythems, the next best thing the magician can do is learn to understand them and use them to his advantage. So, if the drum is a rythem for nature's rhythm, playing the drum represents the magician's understanding and use of the rhythm.
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