The Constant and the Conditional
Sound is constant. Even if you close your ears with your fingers, you will hear blood moving through your veins and arteries. You will...
On Nothing
My mind is occupied with thoughts of nothing. "...it is of the utmost importance not to make a thing but rather to make nothing. And how...
Layers of winter time
A quality of time - winter time, quiet time, dark time, still time, water time - is placed under the microscope of durational exploration...
Listening in a Fidgety World
Walking through the woods, the trees are still. One may walk past their trunks the way one walks past a couch or a chair. To a...
Wind Riddles
The wind was wild at the wetlands yesterday. It roared through the land-and-water-scape. It raced across and howled into my ears. It...
A Community of Ears
Listening is a deeply personal experience. It is a matter of our brain translating soundwaves into an experience of sonic perception. Our...
Awakenings
Every so often, my ears wake up, and when they do, I hear things I've never heard before. My eyes do this too, and suddenly I see things...
Art of Listening: Finding the Receptive Sound
A musician's ears "wake up" to different layers of listening-awareness throughout their musical life. In nearly forty years of musical...