Month: March 2020

Mediations On Music In All Its Colors

Devin Townsend; Empath

Virus Links #2

Today’s main link is to Devin Townsend’s Twitch page. Townsend’s Empath is right at the top of the list for best album of the last year as far as I’m concerned. The discerning listener (said with lilting, pretentious tones) with find sounds ranging from blast beat blasting metal to Broadway open vocal to positively poppy.…
Read more

Starting to Add Some Videos

Since I am not on social media, I have decided to start sharing some fun and/or inspirational videos and links and what-have-yous. This also gives me a chance to learn how to embed videos. Turns out its kinda simple. There are some amazingly creative and talented people out there… Music listened to while writing: See…
Read more

Viral Again

After yesterday I was thinking of all the people out there being affected by the ongoing virus pandemic (it’s official). It started as I walked by a Vietnamese restaurant that just opened a week ago. This would be the very definition of unlucky timing. Then, as my mind wandered around thinking of all of the…
Read more

Going Viral

The next planned post was a second part of the origins of music in human evolution. But, then the world happened. What with all things being virus related this week, it occurred to me that there were an awful lot of music lessons that might be affected by current cancel and isolate mindset. While I…
Read more

Flutes, Old

As it happens, I know a little about prehistory.  The downside of trying to shine bits of light into the deep dark of our human past is, short of someone suddenly inventing a working Wayback Machine, it is just really hard to finalize with absolute assuredness what happened, say, 40,000 years ago.   Nevertheless, we continue…
Read more