Quote for Today: Aaron Freeman
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your …
Quote for Today: Margaret Bendroth after Miroslav Volf
Writer Miroslav Volf explains this more poetically. We experience time, he says, the way we hear a beautiful note from a cello. It may sound like a single pitch, but …
Quote for Today: Kahlil Gibran
Imagination sees the complete reality–it is where past, present and future meet … Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent–nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It …
Quote for Today: Wassily Kandinsky
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown …
Look and Listen #9: Xenobia Bailey’s Aesthetic of Funk
Here are two wonderful videos of Xenobia Bailey, a multi-faceted artist influenced by funk and ethnomusicology. Born Sherilyn Bailey in Seattle, she took the name Xenobia to draw on the …
Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It …
Quote for Today: Stig Åvall Severinsen
It is impossible to express the experiences you have below the surface with words, when water gently caresses your face and body, the pulse decreases and your brain relaxes. …
Quote for Today: Zeena Schreck
Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular mainstream entertainment, sometimes labeling it ‘world’ or ‘folk’ …
Quote for Today: Lauren Oliver
Most things, even the greatest moments on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremor, a tremble, a breath. Music …
Bug Music: Graeme Revell’s The Insect Musicians
You might know composer Graeme Revell for his film scores, including Dead Calm, The Crow, Sin City, and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, or perhaps even as a founding member of the industrial …