archives for Thursday 7 September 2006
overheard in therapy, vol. I, no. 2
Thursday 7 September 2006 | I like a cookie
When B. was three years old, her family took her to church for a music recital featuring a solo violinist. When the music was over, little B. stood up on the pew and announced to the congregation, longingly: “I wish I had a stick like that.”
read ‘overheard in therapy, vol. I, no. 2’
what kind of fool am I
Thursday 7 September 2006 | 2 cookies in the jar
That I actually kind of want to go to the Browncoat Ball? Oh, if only Mandarin were still in San Francisco instead of on her way to Salamanca! We could dress as Inara and Kaylee (not too hard to figure out who would go as who) and, and, and go be giant geeks who get [...]
and how can I not?
Thursday 7 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Thanks for your feedback on our radio show of 9/7/06. The paradigm of group and collective improvisation represented by the brief passage to which you refer existed in pan-African and pre-historical African American sound production from the very beginning (viz., the New Orleans funeral march wherein polyphonic and polyrhythmic counterpoint manifested within an anti-Western methodology [...]
