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On Shameless Plugs: Evernote
For a long time I used the yellow note pad app on my Apple phone to write these blog posts. But every once in a while I deleted notes accidentally. The problem: that little trash can icon is right next door to the email icon! Touch the trash by mistake and your note is gone–without… Continue reading
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On Another Kind Of Wonder (part III)
My recent recording Another Kind Of Wonder is now available on Spotify. Go here to listen. Continue reading
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On Music For Ringtones
Here are three brief audio files I made for use as ringtones. They are 100 percent organic and locally sourced. Enjoy! Continue reading
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Some Observations On Atoms For Peace’s “Unless”
Thom Yorke’s musical project, Atoms For Peace, brought together a number of fine musicians to jam out and record rhythmically propulsive grooves which Yorke and the producer Nigel Godrich then edited together. The result, AMOK, is a lean, hybrid acoustic-electronic work that has been described in The Guardian as “surprisingly accessible for one so extensively… Continue reading
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Free Of All The World’s Heaviness: Karl Pilkington On Sound And Listening
I recently watched a few episodes of the animated HBO series, The Ricky Gervais Show (based on the popular audio podcast of the same name), on which Gervais and fellow comedian and writer Stephen Merchant chat with their perfectly round-headed friend Karl Pilkington on any topic they feel like just to hear what Karl might… Continue reading
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A Silent Palette Cleanser
Walking down Main Street without music in my headphones, I Iook up and see three balloons–one red, one yellow, one white–tethered to a string, hanging just above a store awning, moving. As I watch the balloons I wonder just who the string attaches to: Someone flying the balloons like they’re a kite? What celebration might… Continue reading
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Representing Time: On Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
While I was in Ottawa last week, timing would have it that Christian Marclay’s epic video installation piece The Clock was showing at the National Gallery. I of course made a point of going to see it. The Clock is a 24-hour video collage composed of thousands of film clips (culled from the entire history… Continue reading
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On Computers, Bicycles and Minds
“In my perspective … science and computer science is a liberal art, it’s something everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life. It’s not something that should be relegated to 5 percent of the population over in the corner. It’s something that everybody should be exposed to and everyone should have mastery… Continue reading
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On The Wellness Of Voice: Sounding Om
Yoga class. The lights are off, the dark space peaceful, and we sit quietly on our mats, legs crossed, hands prayed in front of our chests — Namaste. With one unison breath we chant Om on a single unison pitch– centering and togetherness through collective sound. We’re a choir of Om. But there’s a problem.… Continue reading
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On Musical Time and Drummers’ Brains
In a recent article by the always interesting Bikhard Bilger in this week’s The New Yorker (April 25), we learn about David Eagleman’s research on the brain and time perception. Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Baylor College, wants to understand how we experience time, an especially interesting question considering how subjective time can feel in those moments when… Continue reading
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