Les Baronets
While awaiting a rejection letter from the music faculty of the University of Western Ontario regarding my application, I have been developing a course concept. It revolves around teaching music […]
Lessons
probably think this post is about you
Listening to an interview with drummer Andy Newmark, talking about the recording session fifty years ago, on You’re So Vain by Carly Simon. Richard Perry, the producer, replaced him with […]
3 parts
While putting my daughter to sleep she told me she fears strange sounds when she is alone in the house. I reassured her about the origins of some pipe sounds […]
heaven room
At one point they moved the class of young jamming musicians, from the college to a commercial rehearsal space where they had several rooms, each with a theme. The room […]
epiphanies
I watched an improvisation at the beginning of the Sun Ra concert in the mid 80s in New York in a small theatrical space adjacent to the Chelsea Hotel. It […]
derrida floss tycoon
At the secular Jewish school my daughter learns things about Jewish history, which I hope makes her feel different than Drew, a kid I knew in high school that was […]
the viola player
I met a woman, a grandmother, who was a violin student of Yitzchak Pearlman. She said back then he had never had a student before he told her to play […]
georgy girl
You select a song on Spotify and afterward, other songs are generated related to your first selection. It happened while I was driving after I chose something by Roy Orbison. […]
straight no chasers
x: i keep trying to do that exercise but i have no luck, i’ll never be able to play those patterns.y: try again, don’t be fooled by your thoughts.x: but […]
From Earth?
There used to be regular arguments in music stores about the quality of the sounds of sampled instrument or else the quality of digital recording vs. analog but haven’t heard […]