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Searches That Brought You Here
• “Poets wear sombreros.” This search is a reference to a line in one of my favorite Wallace Stevens poems, “Six Significant Landscapes” (1916). The line–which actually reads “rationalists would wear sombreros”–appears at the end of the sixth and final stanza: “Rationalists, wearing square hats, Think, in square rooms, Looking at the floor, Looking at the… Continue reading
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Reset
In my current work of performing music, perhaps the most useful “secret” for maintaining a high standard of playing is my ability to reset. In my life outside of music, there are very few occasions in need of resetting—at home, there’s pressing the small button on the kitchen thermometer, or unplugging the cable modem now… Continue reading
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(parenthetical post)
(What do you want this blog to accomplish? I’m not sure it has any practical applications, but it has something to do with exploring creativity, cultivating risk-taking, and practicing the habit of sharing. Who is your audience? Not sure, though some of the followers I do know personally. Do you ‘own your product category’? That’s… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Johann Joseph Fux’s “The Study of Counterpoint” (1725)
“You must try to remember whether even in childhood you felt a strong natural inclination to this art and whether you were deeply moved by the beauty of concords.” – Johann Joseph Fux, The Study of Counterpoint (1725) Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Gerhard Richter On Art
“Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: ‘binding back’, ‘binding’ to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being).” – Notes, 1964-65 • “Art is the highest form of hope.” – Text for catalog of documents 7, Kassel, 1982 • Question: And what is it that connects… Continue reading
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Art About Music: Schematic For The Grateful Dead’s “Wall Of Sound” (c. 1974)
(The system could put out 28,000 watts of sound. To learn more about it: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnnayb/the-wall-of-sound). Continue reading
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