Piano

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 […]