Over the past two weeks, we’ve read some of Mathieu’s thoughts on Music as Mind and Music as Heart. We’re now on Chapter 5, Feeling Mind, Thinking Heart, of Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World. This chapter touches on one of the most heated ongoing debates in […] Read more…
As we move past the heaviest chapter of Bridge of Waves thus far (Music as Mind) and now meditate on Music as Heart, it seems quite fitting that I am now experiencing a compelling need and desire for rest. This chapter has some wonderful thoughts about the feeling of leaving and returning home, and being […] Read more…
Last week, we delved into Music as Body (Chapter 1) in Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World. Time for Chapter 2! This chapter, titled Music as Mind, discusses at length the philosophical, practical, and technical aspects of musical concepts like pulse, tone, meter, interval, scale, key, melody, […] Read more…
We’re now on Chapter 1 of Mathieu’s Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World, which is tantalizingly titled Music as Body. This chapter is a nice segue from the introduction last week when Mathieu and I wrote about how the upper and lower body connote spirituality and groundedness […] Read more…
Welcome to the official start of our Musicality Book Club using Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World! I know a couple of people are still waiting for their book, but they plan to follow along until it arrives. I hope everyone else is ready to go with […] Read more…