mr. ayler
Sometimes, like viewing footage of a hummingbird in slow motion, breathtaking & extraordinary, just the natural state of the hummingbird, revealed at a human speed of comprehension, beyond words all […]
Sometimes, like viewing footage of a hummingbird in slow motion, breathtaking & extraordinary, just the natural state of the hummingbird, revealed at a human speed of comprehension, beyond words all […]
working on my final paper for my masters. the hardest part is trying to fit in with the language of academia which is not the language i speak nor the […]
i had a poem about record industry executive which i told for a number of years and part of the text was indicating his salary was 75 thousand dollars a […]
I had a day off one time in the 90s touring Germany, I was alone on the Reeperbahn, outside Grosse Freiheit, on the marquee: tonight Fela Kuti. I didn’t know […]
I had an assignment due recently for students: write a bad song accompanied by a 2500 word essay re: why it is so bad, how they made it, how they […]
student sent me their song to check and it reminded me of j.j. cale’s naturally (the raccoon cover) i put it on for old times. one of those records with […]
Sometimes you can listen to the sounds of everything all around you as if it is a song. Sometimes you could also hear yourself, the speaking to yourself about yourself, […]
There is a special space offered in songs when everyone pauses and reconsiders this experience; the solo. It’s a different space, a new zone where if there was a trapeze, […]
I was at AGO the other day, checking out the Rubens show with 3 kids I was babysitting. Walking through the exhibit one thinks about the 1600s and we started […]
when i’ve taught in toronto i could ask accomplished friends to come do Q&A with the students but not so easy now being based in London Ontario. insert light bulb. […]