The Evolution of Valve

These music pieces are manifestations of a meditative process. In a depth of focus, the movements evolve their own lives. Individual recordings are images of growing gardens. An example can be seen in the piece Valve which can be found both in Fidelio (2003) and in...

Time As Told In Music

Time is a funny thing. How well do we really understand its nature when all we know is how we perceive it? Theories have been bandied about ranging from existence to non-existence in the forms of a clock or an illusion, respectively. When playing music, I feel that...

Knowing the Self

Feeling a lack of control over one’s own fate is arguably a large characteristic found in different types of mental anguish and suffering. Being able to understand the self is a method of gaining some of that control. Different types of therapies have their own...

Ze Frank on Conscious abilities

Ze Frank can be fairly entertaining on his video blog there. On this particular episode, he discusses the limitations of consciousness: the show with zefrank: 01-08-07 I post it here, because I think the point he makes connects well with the idea of improvisation....