Sunken Gardens at Caramoor through November 2
It’s been some time since I last posted, and oddly enough, the idea that began as a possible conception of a piano piece has in that year or so taken shape as a very large outdoor sound installation (though I am toying with the idea of creating a piano or chamber piece out of it […]
20,000 Leagues Under The Piano
“At that moment I heard the vague chords of the organ, a sad harmony under an indefinable melody, veritable wails of a soul that wished to break all terrestrial ties. I listened with all my senses, hardly breathing, plunged, like Captain Nemo, in one of those musical ecstasies which took him beyond the limits of […]
Hear, hear! Seth Horowitz on listening and hearing.
Earlier this month, Seth Horowitz, who is an auditory neuroscientist at Brown University, and who I regrettably never came across during my tenure there, released his book The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind. The New York Times ran a great essay by him, a paen to listening and why it’s so important (and […]