drumming diaries
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Drumming Diaries: Energies of Performance
Edgar Degas, Musicians in the Orchestra (1872) “There’s a whole orchestra down there. This is where all the music happens.” “Look—he’s playing a huge xylophone!” “He’s trained his entire life to learn those instruments.” At the show over the past few years I’ve noticed more and more curious audience members peering over the pit at… Continue reading
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Drumming Diaries: Inherent Rhythms
What do musicians think about when they’re playing music? I think about this question often when I’m playing percussion because music seems to stimulate multiple kinds of thinking. The comprehensive cognitive effects of playing and listening to music are of course well documented; music literally “lights up nearly all of the brain” as Harvard Medicine… Continue reading
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