As composers, our relationship to sound is intimate. Explaining the process of making music can be difficult, even impossible at times. There is a magic and power there that we dare not tread and mince into words. Yet we are often asked to describe this process. When I find other composers, musicians and artists who describe this [...]
Yesterday I had a photo shoot at the National Gallery of Art in DC for the upcoming interview/story with ReadysetDC. We went to two locations, first was the “La Negresse” enormous cut-out by Henri Matisse. The other was this courtyard, which had AMAZING acoustics. I had to do it, I had to play Unabi… Allyson [...]
I was seduced today, three times. First, by this quote by Caroline Casey: “May the entire world fall in love with a woman that changes their heart and may that woman be the Earth.” :: Then, by this gem by Julie Daley. “A new female human being is being born anew. She is coming into [...]
I recently read an except from the book A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody by David Liebman, and wanted to share this with you: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Like all forms of communication, music consists of the interplay of patterns and violations of the pattern. Without order, sound is noise. But perfect order conveys no message, [...]
It has been 5 weeks since my last blog about the Amazon rainforest and indigenous Achuar villages. I thought that I would have written more, posted more… but the muses have their own way of doing things. I’ve been writing music this entire time, and in the last 5 weeks have written 8 songs. A [...]