Posted in Habits of Mind, Random Thoughts on Jan 12th, 2011
I offer a koan for winter – obviously a variation on a classic: What is the sound of snow falling? I came up with this last night, with the thought of listening to the sound of the snow while going to sleep. But this morning it occurred that there may be something to it. If […]
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Posted in Habits of Mind, Practice on Nov 22nd, 2010
I don’t know the specific biological or neurological mechanisms that would pertain to whether the Vibrational Model is literally accurate or more of a metaphor – but at some level it feels right. Even if only metaphorically, each of us does both transmit and receive vibrations from others; and we are deeply influenced at both cellular and energetic levels both by these vibrations, as well as by the range of vibrations we detect as sounds (music, speech, or ambient sound or noise).
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Posted in Essentials on Nov 16th, 2010
Students sometimes ask me for a recommended listening list for general music literacy (this is part of Craft). So from the perspective of an orchestra girl, here are my recommendations. I recognize this list is slanted toward orchestral composers, so inevitably there are gaps – but this is after all a subjective exercise! When the […]
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