1. An interview with Ryuichi Sakamoto. “It was one of my uncles who is a big music lover and record collector. Since the age of three or four I often visited his room to play his piano and pick some vinyl records to play. The first music I got really into was Bach. I was… Continue reading

1. An article about the use of noise music in yoga classes. “The focus of yoga creates a really good environment to appreciate sound, in a deep listening kind of way…Intense music creates a kind of mindfulness as well, in that it can be very aggressive in displacing thoughts.” 2. An essay about the banality/power… Continue reading

1. An article on the hold of the analog in the digital world. “It turns out that while the digital often comes close to crushing its analog precedents, that process can do something curious to its putative victims: underscore their virtues, elevate their status and transform the formerly workaday into something rarefied, special, even luxurious…What… Continue reading

1. An article about Cove, an app that helps users make sense of their emotions using music. “The app helps you make music that shows how you feel, whether it’s happy, sad or anywhere in between. After making these mood pieces, you can share them with important friends or family, which can help them understand your confusing… Continue reading

  1. An interview with the musical force known as Prince. “I don’t think people learn technique any more. There are no great jazz-fusion bands. I grew up seeing Weather Report, and I don’t see anything remotely like that now. There’s nothing to copy from, because you can’t go and see a band like Weather Report.… Continue reading

1. An article about lullabies. “What, really, is a lullaby? We can define it functionally — a song used to lull a child to sleep. In this sense, the distinctive burden of a lullaby is to be interesting enough to capture a child’s attention, but not interesting enough to keep the child awake, which is… Continue reading

1. A fascinating series of BBC radio documentaries about all aspects of musical experience. Here is quote from the program “Playing With Patterns”: “Our brain is responding to that tension between recognizing a pattern at work, but not a pattern that is so simple that we can predict what will happen next…In each piece [Bach]… Continue reading

1. Brian Eno gives the Peel Lecture on the BBC. “Art is everything you don’t have to do…What are we doing when we make art and when we consume it?” 2. An article about learning to appreciate low bit rates on recordings. “Songs ripped from CDs, uploaded to streaming sites, shared via P2P, and burned… Continue reading

1. Another essential article by John McPhee about editing and cutting material. “The creativity lies in what you choose to write about, how you go about doing it, the arrangement through which you present things, the skill and the touch with which you describe people and succeed in developing them as characters, the rhythms of… Continue reading