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THOUGHTS ABOUT SOUNDS
The Healing Arts
Medicine has come a long way from the days of bloodletting and Babylonian Skull Cures*, and the development of musical care as a form of practical therapy is becoming more and more sophisticated all the time. When the ancient Greeks moved their gaze from heaven to...
It’s the Little Things
The cream in your coffee A beautiful sunrise.Alberto Bogo at UnSplashimage by Chris RobertLiving in this time is a grim business, with a pandemic still raging, millions unemployed and musicians in particular facing ruin. We look to small pleasures for anything...
“In a Relationship”
image courtesy of Pointe Tango.To be Alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That's crudely put, but... If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?" -Gregory OrrSo much of music is about relationships: instruments in relation to other instruments (or...
Would You Rather…
Would you rather be trapped in a small room with 10,000 tarantulas for 10 minutes, or eat 10 tarantulas in 10 minutes? Would you rather lose all of your teeth or all of your hair? Would you rather be in jail for five years or be in a coma for a decade?There’s a game...
Diversify, Diversify
For financial types and for musicians, it's a way of reducing risk. But it's also so much more for musicians.There are certainly practical reasons for musicians here and now to have a broad skill set—self-promotion, recording, self-management, composing, arranging,...
Silence
It's said that anyone wanting an answer out of the Buddha has to ask three times before getting an answer. Until then, they are met with silence. Jason Rosewell at UnSplash Practising this makes you carefully consider your answers, although it might get you fired...
Deception
Try saying this French poem out loud: (Go on! It doesn’t have to be good.) Roc a bail, bey bis; On detruit tape. Ou N. de Windt blouse, Decret de l'huile roque. * Image: Eulalie Banks Try it a couple of times. Even with the worst French accent, what you hear coming...
The Memory Game
Did you ever play the memory game? It was a feature of birthday parties, before the days of trampoline parks and bouncy castles. In between the 3-legged race and the cake, a tray with assorted objects was briefly presented for the guests’ viewing and memorizing, the...
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