song of the day
I’ve started sharing songs online on a daily basis, accompanied by a “movement suggestion” to invite you into a deeper listening/moving experience. Here’s the story behind that and your invitation in.
music
stomping stoplight
Today I had to take a detour from the regularly scheduled programming and revisit the musical qualities of words.
dive. then learn to swim.
When you have no idea what to do, it’s easy not to do anything. But sometimes when you have no idea what you’re doing, the doing gives you an idea. I go through this almost every day.
below the surface of the ordinary
Two compositions by the experimental composer LaMonte Young serve as a useful reminder that something extraordinary lies just under the surface of the apparently ordinary.
creatively reorganizing the present moment
My life was changed forever by the revolutionary multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser Anthony Braxton. Later it was changed forever again by somatic pioneer Moshe Feldenkrais. Here’s a partial account of how and why.