inherent rhythms
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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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Notes On Russell Hartenberger’s “Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich”
I first heard Steve Reich’s music in the early 1990s when I was studying music at the University of Toronto. At a used record store I bought an LP of his Six Marimbas and Sextet, and a CD of his early tape pieces, Come Out and It’s Gonna Rain. The music sounded otherworldly—as if… Continue reading
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Polyrhythms, negative space, circuits of meaning: making sense through Dawn of Midi’s “Dysnomia”
My essay on the music of Dawn of Midi, “Polyrhythms, negative space, circuits of meaning: making sense through Dawn of Midi’s Dysnomia”, is now available in the journal Popular Music. You can read an abstract of the essay here. Continue reading
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