That is: making music so it is for everyone, not making music that everyone will like…. That’s no clearer, is it? What I mean is this article linked to by Dan Levitin – he of the wonderful book ‘This is Your Brain on Music’. I haven’t yet watched the video, as the video page...
Just reminded myself of this, which is about the coolest musical thing in the history of cool musical things: Want to Take You Higher, by Sly and the Family Stone at Woodstock. Nuff Said
This post is specially for a friend who asked for an explanation of this article about the relation of thalamic dopamine D2 receptor densities to psychometric creativity shorn of big words I’m thinking that each paragraph may well degenerate into wordiness (hey, it’s me) but in the first sentence or two per...
I’m working on a new instrumental at the moment (see my recent post for the video of an earlyish version). It’s in my head a lot of the time, which I figure is a good thing. It’s also still a lot of fun – also a good thing. I’ve had a number of comments...
Here’s a video of an early (not super early, but not yet final) version of an instrumental I’m working on called “Hide in the Sun”. The name is taken from a line in Holy Diver, by Dio: “You can hide in the sun till you see the light”. That’s because I was working on...
