As a vehicle to facilitate group improvisation - or collaborative creation in the moment, as some artists refer to it-…
In a musical environment that too often propagates concepts of genre, one label in particular often stands out as problematic:…
Here is a fun exercise for a reader’s consideration. Consider these two quotes: “[It is] just a bunch of notes…
Although instruments like the Teleharmonium plugged in as early as the late Nineteenth Century, it was not until the 1970s…
There is a particular power in the creation that comes out of long-term artistic relationships. While there is an excitement…
Catholic saint Thérèse of Lisieux once stated, “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its…
In 1835, German instrument makers Wilhelm Wieprecht and Johann Moritz patented the first tuba as a brass instrument that could…
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As nonsensical as it may seem in the abstract, sometimes ideological wars are a necessary step towards a renewed and…
Of the world's roughly eleven thousand bird species, there is something particularly special about the dove family. Dating back to…