It boggles my mind: Tubaist (or tubist), choir bass, high-tech recording arts artist, and rapper.
Senior Logan Reimann is in the Fine Arts Booster (FAB) Spotlight.
Sitting in Cuppa Bella, I furiously wrote notes on the words flowing out of Logan. “I have a weird brain. My mouth doesn’t mesh with my brain,” he said.
When I asked how it works to be a rapper, he said, “When I have ‘brain rabble’ I rap and put it out.” I said “coffee.” When he asked me for a noun, he rapped on that. Amazing and spontaneous.
Logan is a tuba player in the KHS marching band and concert bands. He started on the baritone at Wolfle Elementary and changed to the tuba at Kingston Middle School. Logan spends his free time making music on the guitar and ukulele.
“Although I like video games, music is my hobby and hopefully it will be my profession in audio design,” he said. “Music is the most perfect form of expression.”
Richard, Logan’s recording arts teacher, said Logan is an “inspiration.”
“He keeps up with the latest developments as the audio industry evolves,” Richard said.
Logan looks forward to study at the Art Institute of Seattle, where he will start with a two-year associate’s degree, learning “everything to do with sound,” and then will pick his creative track.
“I’m having a non-academic year,” said Logan, who’s taken AP classes. “I think I would burn out if I worked too hard as a senior, and I’m complaining less.”
Now he participates in band and choir, where he sings bass.
“Art is a divergence from everyday life,” he said. “Everyone has their own reasons why art is important. One can lose their self.”
Yet, Logan loves math.
“Mrs. Gale is the best math teacher whose considerable intelligence is wholly self-evident,” he said. “I am, on the other hand, really good at regurgitating big ideas to sound intelligent.”
Logan’s family of five — a Band Booster president mother, a firefighter father, and two sisters — have visited their relatives in Switzerland. Logan was enthusiastic about Mardi Gras and the fire fest in Germany.
When I asked Logan how he feels about what is going on in the world, his answer was, “The Middle East is just a blip in the radar. Eventually, all wars end. Looking with a historical perspective, what will matter is the change in technology. It will redefine how we will interact around the world. Wei Bong, in China, is like Twitter and is redefining China’s politics.”
Upon searching, I found there were more than 3 million links to this.
As we were leaving and my mind was feeling — like I said — boggled, Logan said, “You know, the brain can only do only one thing at once, so in multi-tasking it switches back and forth” and then something about how fast technology is moving. Yep!
And unlike me, he is moving right along with it, with music as his perfect form of expression.
— Contact FAB columnist Marilyn Bode at lidenbode@aol.com
