In pieces reviewing a year past, writers often try to find a few narratives and blanketly apply them. The problem…
In the late 1850s, two decades before Thomas Edison’s phonograph, French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the first sound…
Western literature has long noted the disconnection between perception and reality. In 1175, French monk Alain de Lille "Do not…
We continue our conversation with Fred Frith (read part one here) with a focus on his work with homemade instruments,…
When first learning about music, students are often taught to classify instruments by their sound. In the abstract, this basic…
Far too often, history is perceived through a lens of minimizing the problems of the present. According to George Santayana,…
Pablo Picasso once noted that “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” In music, artists can converse in ways…
As artificial intelligence increasingly disrupts our ordinary lives, there is an ongoing concern about how the new technology will impact…
We continue our conversation with Terry Gibbs (read part one here), with a discussion of the intersection of Jewish music…
Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has bestowed its Jazz Master award to living legends of the music.…