Piano

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 […]

I found a way to play a couple other guitar songs on piano. It is rewarding transposing one to the other. About as close as I’ll ever get to understanding […]

Collette and Rebecca asked me for a suggestion for the group experience. I thought it might be good for querying herd mentality. Maybe people should try viewing a podcast or […]

Started playing Day Tripper on piano in G#. Always assumed it was about tripping on LSD but the Google Gods tell me John and Paul had other meanings. Either way […]

It’s my dad’s birthday today. He died over twenty years ago. Today marks one hundred years ago his birth. He was the only one in the family who didn’t play […]