2024 Thoughts
✦ November
On books that change your life
"I really should have read Plato's Republic in college, like everyone else," I told Larry, the
Thoughts
A reverse-chronological log of what might be important.
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Small changes change everything
I said I would tell you about one of the small changes I made to MELISANDE, so here you go
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
I want a space for people who are serious about making things
First of all, I have discovered that I can make minor edits in MELISANDE even as I do everything else
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
"no learning gets done over the holidays"
So first of all I should mention that I did watch My Old Ass, or at least the first twenty
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Seriously, go watch "Hundreds of Beavers" and also read my lengthy analysis of why it matters
Hundreds of Beavers, a 2022 slapstick comedy film that was built on a $150,000 budget and successfully self-distributed to
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Why am I writing this music specifically?
I had sort of forgotten that MELISANDE was meant to be a student theater piece.
Over the past few months
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
"why do we even write music anyway"
I'm going to see if I can come around to where my thoughts are taking me, starting with
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Showing my work
I actually recorded this on Friday, but you get it today. ❤️
First is Bach Invention in C Major plus the
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
How to solve problems (how to learn)
If you want to solve a problem, it has to be your problem to solve.
This is almost a tautology.
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
I might as well fix RIDE THE CYCLONE while I'm at it
First of all, I did in fact memorize that Bach invention, I'll do another showing-my-work post this Friday,
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Showing my work
It would be silly for me to be telling you any of this if I weren't able to
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Bach (still Bach) and Henle
I don't even know how to tell you that it seems like if you are going to learn
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Bach (again) and Plato
"Two things," I told Larry, last night.
(You have figured out that we tend to think in lists,
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
More thoughts on SIX, including how to fix it
So if you think about SIX at all seriously you have to ask yourself if these women know they'
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total
There's a problem, if you can call it that – because its function is not to be solved, but
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
I want to be a functional pianist (and other things I want)
If you read this post all the way through I am going to both a) solve for education and b)