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Music Without A Body
In Times Square the guys hawking their hip hop CDs and the guys hawking their fake Buddhist bracelets are of a piece, both unaware that art, as a commodity, has no value. But the hawkers know something about symbolic value and that the way of imbuing their wares with magic is through their person. The… Continue reading
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Database: Loraine James On Balancing Melody and Drums
“A lot of the time in my stuff is the juxtaposition of crazy drums and the melody is more simple—just to balance out both. I like to have a warm, simple melody and the drums are doing whatever they want to do.” Loraine James database (a cache of perceptions) Continue reading
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Music’s Complex Problem
Édouard Vuillard, Morning Concert (1937-38) Why do we turn to music when there are so many other artistic, physical, social, trivial, and spiritual pursuits claiming our attention? One reason is that music is a multimodal experience that is already meaningfully integrated into our lives. Music is everywhere as a tacit shared language, a perpetual underscore… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: John Wyre’s “Touched By Sound: A Drummer’s Journey” (2002)
“Dan [Fred D. Hinger] showed me the importance of one note. His enthusiastic response to the sound of one touch was an explosion of well-being and positive reinforcing energy. He thoroughly understood how our energy and touch combine to influence the character of the sound we produce” (10). “Finding solutions–there are no limitations to the… Continue reading
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