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…
I’ve contemplated starting a book club for quite some time, but I never had a book scream to be shared with others chapter-by-chapter right from the beginning until now. By the end of the introduction to W.A. Mathieu’s Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World, I knew I […] Read more…
Reading Simba Tango’s blog post on cadencia prompted me to start collecting quotes from various sources that describe this elusive yet essential phenomenon. Although cadencia is a Spanish word drawn from Argentine tango culture, I believe it can be applied to all dances. I first heard the term cadencia in my 2008 interview with Alex Krebs. Here is how he described it: Part […] Read more…
Whenever I get captivated by a song – which is often – I can’t help but play it over and over again. It’s like a compulsion; there is so much life, so much creative and emotional content flowing through its sound, that I can’t contemplate it all in one listen. I have to internalize it […] Read more…