understanding Stan
Rewriting both my framing doc and the book. It was inevitable that the feedback would go this way. It’s also amusing that my supervisor is able to read what I […]
Rewriting both my framing doc and the book. It was inevitable that the feedback would go this way. It’s also amusing that my supervisor is able to read what I […]
Going over the Hugh’s room recording. I like Jen’s idea to include the DVD with the sale of a t-shirt. I give up. What does Manfred Eicher know about recording […]
Took apart the guts of the piano. Removed the hammers. Placed them upright in the Subaru and drove it to Toronto’s East end where an old guy is going to […]
These days I choose medium firm, whereas for years I would have used firm – but medium has more water. Tofu steaks. By the time the baking is complete it […]
I ask my daughter to eat more vegetables she shoos me away. So I place cut red peppers before her and they disappear. I place cucumbers before her, they vanish. […]
To wonder about consciousness is to get tangled inside one’s own awareness, to play a kind of Sherlock Holmes with the endless inner dialogue that never pauses, never lets go. […]
The major second, the sly cat in the alley. Everybody walks past it but it is not some polite little wrong interval. It’s waiting. It’s the raindrop quivering on the […]
I’m working on two new ostinatos one rooted in B, the other in E. They started off as simple loops, but lately I’ve been trying to stretch them across two […]
Found out today the article I submitted to the German magazine has been accepted. I’m pleased. Rejection is usually my norm. In academia, I try participating in the ways they […]
The jump from a natural key to its sharp counterpart can feel surprisingly significant. While G major feels open and bright, G-sharp major can initially seem a bit more closed […]