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regarding therapy, something immensely valuable my wife and I stumbled on is working with a child psychologist who, rather than meeting directly with our children, does "parent tra…

I wonder about the practicality of complementing that stage of the decomposition with a free-range poultry operation. Bringing in chickens, the birds eat the larvae, and generate m…

When I was tutoring music theory, some students who had a similar experience had "aha" moments when we tried to focus more on how the harmony of a piece of music is linked to the m…

Yes, exactly! I have a couple of "expensive music degrees" and in my experience, most folks within the academy who are applying western-tradition theory and analysis on non-western…

Typically in music theory, we would talk about a hemiola as a rhythmic technique in which a rhythm in a simple (2) metric division is introduced in the context of a compound (3) di…

I think you are exactly correct. My big revelation in graduate school (music performance) was the idea that vocalizations of music "short circuit" our learning process and tend to …

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I think there are some operations that are trying to do this well. Granted, I'm probably pretty susceptible to their marketing efforts, but I find White Oak Pastures Farm in GA a r…

I'd expand that even more broadly to say, if you are going to raise children at all, I would strongly encourage you to start therapy asap. Some of the best parenting advice I ever …

You can watch the meeting from this morning here: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/02/03/2022/executi... The discussion on the EARN IT act starts around 1:42:00 Any mentio…

I think the problem with your thinking, and something that I've been trying to figure out as I sit on/direct more interviews myself, is that this doesn't actually tell you that the…

here's the man himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLQSjzt3vnY

maybe you've come across it, but Silverman's biography does a good job tracing how Cage came to a lot of his compositional convictions. I don't think it would convince you to enjoy…

It really depends what time period you're referring to. Maybe broadly we could say that it's music that is either notably ahead of it's contemporaries in terms of innovation or tha…

I really understood early Glass a lot more when I got the chance to visit a Richard Serra sculpture in LA. Literally walking in the piece helped me understand this idea you're talk…

post-Cage I think it's gotten a bit hard to pin down what it means to be a significant contributor to "Western art music." How do you define that? Has Glass been influential (yes),…

Well sure, most of Feldman's work could be described as "minimal" but saying it is part of the body of work that is typically referred to as "minimalism" is a little disingenuous, …

I'm very interested in what minimalist tropes you would say Berio and Feldman explored in any of their work.

I feel like with this music it's hard to separate the dance, song, and religious context. Have you experienced trance states in the sense that practioners do with Orishas embodying…

Abbilona has recorded a lot of these sacred Afro-Cuban "liturgies" https://sunlightsquare.bandcamp.com/album/masters-of-bat

interesting you bring this up as it shares many roots with the Afro-Cuban diasporic music associated with bata drumming

The site these are hosted on, carrothers.com, is the website of an incredible jazz pianist, Bill Carrothers. I would highly encourage folks to check out his playing, in particular …

Mark Levine's book is a great resource and the way he presents much of the theory behind jazz improvisation and actually ties it to practice is very useful. Regarding ear training …