Musing from Behind the Keyboard
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Music & the Body
Listener affectation based on musical style is a topic I’m fascinated by, and it inspires and informs my work as both performer and composer. This article speaks to…
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Support and Comradery in Music
Though I’m not a sports fan, this story caught my attention. During one of the first-round games in this year’s March Madness college basketball tournament, the University of…
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Meshuggah, Misha Mansoor, and Making Music Your Way
The title of this article is somewhat misleading: it’s more about the guitarist/producer Misha Mansoor making business changes to establish and maintain his happiness and quality of life.…
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Mathematics and J.S. Bach
I read in a music history textbook years ago that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach was so far ahead of his own time that listeners of that…
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Being Authentic in Music
I recently read an interview with the bassist Les Claypool about his failed audition for Metallica in 1986. In the interview he acknowledged that he was not a…
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