Over a long weekend in November, I went to beaver hall on Salt Springs Island to attend the Pharis and Jason Romero concert with my dad.  My expectations going into the concert weren’t sky high, this had a lot to do with the fact that I’d never listened to them beforehand, this was an intentional…

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For this assignment, I wanted to attempt to capture the range of emotions that come with being human from planet earth. I didn’t take the cultural approach since with just 10 tracks I felt it was bound to be unrepresentative in some capacity. Although the instrumental part of the music in these tracks speak for…

My Bio is aimed at the Mechanics of Music organization provided below: Lily is a peaceful yet witty catch-you-off-guard experience. A student of creativity, there’s not a box you can put her in she won’t push out of. Jack of all trades master of none, she prefers variety in life and in her artistic practice.…

One song I’ve been loving at the moment is It’s your own body and mind by Sufjan Stevens from the album a beginners mind. It conveys a really balanced feeling of melancholy and inspiration at the same time. I really like how it starts with just his poetic lyrics and a simple strumming guitar then…

At the fist playing of God Save The Queen by the Sex pistols I found myself unsusceptible to the punk rock power it brings in full. I had heard of the song, but never listened to it through all the way before today. As I continued playing It around the third or fourth time my…

In the scenario that a ghost came down to earth and erased all the music from the past, well first of all I would have a word or two or this ghost! But this is an interesting thought exercise in the way that it makes me wonder what music of the present day would become.…

Dope smoker asks for an enormous amount of trust from the listener in a time of increasingly shorter attention spans. My initial reaction was resistance. Not because of the length but because of the style and essence of the music. in the intro its fuzzy guitar drones on for what feels like an eternity. Once…

In the Aria da capo 1955 version Glenn Goulds plays with a tempo that seems to have each note flowing into the next with flighty light movement’s. Sometimes letting notes breath for their full length as well as fractioning notes in order to push the movement further. This being the closing piece he provokes a…

Murray Schafer Yoko Ono Response When judging art and music theres a double standard. In my mind theres more flexibility for what I consider art in comparison to what I consider music. Since the term art encapsulates so much and is so conceptual and vast in itself anything can be art if the creator says…