Bob Wiseman

A PhD student was studying the 1000 year works of composer Hildegard Von Bingen when she came upon her old poetic axioms positioning music as a metaphor for all sound […]

I stood outside the Asian market on Spadina and wondered about that crazy exotic fruit that polarizes so many, durian. Eventually one woman bought a small one. I asked the […]

(cont’d) I was pissed off and more than a little on fire to write a letter about the salesperson who acted like I didn’t exist but I settled on a […]

Made another bread, so many Youtube tutorials so little time. These are the inexpensive flours, wonder what the difference is with high end stuff, maybe next time. They say Peter […]

There is a great film from 1979 called  The Shout (Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt) spooky subplot about sound/ listening. Alan Bates character lived years with Indigenous people in […]

I read an interview with Paul Thomas Anderson when he was still casting roles in the film The Master and asked Phillip Seymour Hoffman what he thought of different actors […]

bossman: do you know much about us?   applicant: I know someone who studied here years ago.   bossman: who?   applicant: don noyse    bossman: i remember him. he […]

When I was a kid I had a lot of favourite records and listened all the time. A few had lyrics with meanings that were different when I listened later […]

As the old conductor lay there in an oxygen tent, tubes sustaining his last afternoon, Roderick arrived and leaned over the bed. The old man was pleased to see him, […]

A singing student told their teacher they can’t sing the way they want and it depresses them.  Teacher asked “when was the last time you were happy?”   The student […]