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Musicians Are Like Magicians
“Music falls on the silence like a sense,A passion that we feel, not understand.” – Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” Musicians are like magicians,they conjure tricks in sound,like a rabbit from the hator notes behind the ear. Musicians are like magicians,they redirect our attentionwith gesturing hands,striking and strumming,chords become colors. Musicians are like… Continue reading
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Notes On Improvising Solo Piano
(Photo: Amir Doreh) While I’m not a particularly skilled piano player, I regularly improvise on the instrument and record the results. Improvising piano is different from producing music, mainly because there’s nowhere to hide–it’s just you at the instrument. There’s one sound, not eight or eighteen. Everything happens in the real time of the performance.… Continue reading
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Listening To Old Track Ideas
I try to stay organized with my music, but I don’t have a surefire way of keeping track of everything I’ve done. What happens is that as unfinished pieces accumulate I assume that I’ll remember the ones with potential–that they’ll somehow float to top of mind. But my remembering is influenced by what’s in front… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Chad Engelland’s “Phenomenology” (2020)
“Phenomenology recognizes an inner kinship between experience and language; the exhibited phenomena achieve a kind of completion when they are articulated. The challenge is to find a way of speaking that takes its bearings from the phenomena themselves and in this way lets them be exhibited and remembered as they are.” “Phenomenological books are trail… Continue reading
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