How Music Works

I also realized then that it was possible to mix ironic humor with sincerity in performance.

And, unlike religion, no one has ever gone to war over music.

In the long run there is a greater value for humanity in empowering folks to make and create than there is in teaching them the canon of great works.

he said that the way we think and view the world changed as a result. In an acoustic universe one senses essence, whereas in a visual universe one sees categories and hierarchies. He claims that in a visual universe one begins to think in a linear fashion, one thing following another along a timeline, rather than everything existing right now, ever

musical partnerships have often led me to places I might not otherwise

the West, how things are organized is more important than what those things are.

Noémie began with an exercise I’ve never forgotten. It consisted of four simple rules: 1. Improvise moving to the music and come up with an eight-count phrase. (In dance, a phrase is a short series of moves that can be repeated.) 2. When you find a phrase you like, loop (repeat) it. 3. When you see someone else with a stronger phrase, copy it. 4. W

To look like a rebel was to pigeonhole yourself in advance as someone who spoke only to other rebels.

The disenfranchised and invisible could be heard with this new machine.