Piano

The jazz course started with Fly Me To The Moon and Autumn Leaves. Now onto I’m in The Mood for Love and Falling in Love with Love. It is like […]

Walking in High Park thinking more on the design of Joyce Carol Oates amazing book My life as A Rat when somewhere in the bushes I heard a sax playing […]

I’m writing something and each of my hands are like students. The left has been taught to repeat the part a zillion times, new ideas are suggested and it tries […]

I played a piece I wrote at the Mendelson Joe memorial in April and it was videotaped. Good thing I didn’t realize that because recordings often are a distraction. When […]

I like playing clusters so much and trying to also be melodic with these shapes. Part of it is because people positioned as musical experts often dismiss certain sounds as […]

Started writing something in D major where I tried inserting diminished chords instead of the usual diatonic changes I might explore. Immediately reminiscent of cadences in romantic classical music. While […]

One day in the gymnasium after dodge ball, the grade three class noticed the upright piano had not yet been wheeled back to the locked closet, so small Ari Muchnik […]

for many years, it is like one is climbing up an invisible mountain and then one day it is obvious one is heading down and at some point previously, the […]

There is a guy I’ve worked with over a year, who makes more headway than most because he does the work and he gets off on the experience of his […]

there is a little girl i teach once a week and it is very interesting that if i show her something that requires three fingers she will start the sequence […]