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After these numerous collaborative efforts, Ma knows that the work poured into a composition requires synthesizing the creative personalities. The fact that Ma is constantly playing and collaborating with new and evolving partners is expectedly exhausting because of the constant need to change the dynamics of your music-playing. But Ma says that the experience of playing with someone for the first time is not necessarily so different from playing with a longtime collaborator, like Ma’s friend and colleague Emanuel...
...fact, Ma says, the success of a collaboration rests in how well the contributing personalities complement each other on a specific project at a specific time. “It all boils down to building trust. I can’t work with someone on something that is actually deeply personal…without trusting and respecting one another…There’s a point [in every collaboration] where you have to jump over a very difficult hurdle, when you encounter a difficult transition, and you must assess whether it is either going to break down or succeed...
According to Ma, it is important to bring music to the community and to thread music into the essential weave of daily life because “music is one of the best ways that we have as human beings to express a part of ourselves.” Ma recommends a musical education because it helps to establish a universal line of communication...
...most children respond to music, they move to music. Why do people respond to rhythm? I think it’s all a part of our [natural human] senses. And using those senses, once we get the vocabulary, we can understand each other more deeply,” Ma says...
...that end, Ma has helped establish the Silk Road Project. Like its historical namesake, the Silk Road Project aims to link cross-continental cultures. Ma said he was inspired to found the effort because of his own career travels. “In my musical journey, I have had the opportunity to learn from a wealth of different musical voices… As we interact with unfamiliar musical traditions we encounter voices that are not exclusive to one community. We discover transnational voices that belong to one world…and [when] we enlarge our view of the world...