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Resonant Thoughts: C. Thi Nguyen, The Score (2026)
“The pursuit of fish creates an attentional focal point. It structures the way I look at the river—it gives me a goal, tells me what to look for, what to see” (29). “The real point is something larger, stranger, more mystical. You spend time on a river trying to catch fish, and you start noticing… Continue reading
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Curating One’s Work
Every artist is their own curator. One curates at the level of sounds and sentences, parts and paragraphs, textures and timbres, arrangements and structures, finished tracks and essays. To curate is to be continually making decisions about what to keep and what to jettison, what to edit and re-arrange and what to leave just as… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Martin Gayford’s “Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy” (2021)
“Each time I do a still life, I get very excited and realize that there are a thousand things here I can see! Which of them shall I choose? The more I look and think about it, the more I see. These simple little things are unbelievably rich. A lot of people have forgotten that.… 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
