Month: April 2020

  • Listening, part 2: stories

    In listening, part 1, I mentioned closing one’s eyes when listening to remove the visual stimuli. This can have much more of an effect than we think, for example check out this illusion! I also talked about ignoring the sound quality of the recording to focus on phrasing. Both of those tie into what I…

  • Focused listening – part one

    (this was originally sent out to my email newsletter subscribers – join my list here) Hi all, We’re often surrounded by music; it can be a soundtrack to everything we do (exercise, work, cooking, reading, watching movies, etc.) and yet it can be very rare to actually sit down and just listen to something, focused…

  • Two new music videos – Alla Turca Jazz, plus Debussy’s Prelude, Clair de Lune

    I recently published a music video of the tremendously fun Alla Turca Jazz and then yesterday I published a video of a performance from 2018 of the Prelude and Clair de Lune from Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque. Hope you enjoy! :)