Who needs a new blog? Certainly I don’t – I have no intention of starting a new one. This new blog is an old blog that’s been around since 2005, right around when blogging was becoming ubiquitous. For 9+ years, it resided comfortably on a site devoted to new music. Then, this past fall, it got attacked and destroyed by bots, which are, if you haven’t encountered them, little automated repetitions that eat away at ideas. Kind of like a few compositions I’ve encountered, come to think of it.
From the ashes it rises again because, after all, attacks and destruction can take place in the ether with little impact on the fingers and foibles of those of us who come from the physical domain. So here is this new, ten-year-old blog, assuming a familiar form in unfamiliar surroundings.
What can you expect from it? If history is any indication, it could cover a lot of terrain. I’m a composer, and I’ve learned from close to a half-century of writing music that everything I pay any attention to somehow winds up in my work. Even things I try not to pay attention to seem to muddle their way in. So I do my best not to filter too much, or at least to filter just enough to keep my cranium from exploding.
Infinite curves: in a musical composition, there are many ways to get from point A to point B, no matter how distant A and B appear to be from one another. Similarly, life demonstrates time and again that connections can be found between seeming incompatibles. I’m here to continue sharing my thoughts on some of these connections – bots willing.