As we interact with our surroundings, we create resonances that spread from our actions. The dominant culture creates a kind of standard scale, which we are taught to use socially. The act of play allows us to experiment with tones not normally encouraged. My favorite thing to play as a child was the piano. StrikingContinue reading “Learning the Tones Between the Notes of the Standard Scale”
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Piano Improvisation of the Week
Music comes to me as I play the piano, music that already exists somewhere only to be brought out, like when spinning wool or gathering snap peas. Sometimes I remember to press record…
Piano Improvisation of the Week
Piano has always been one of my favorite ways to untangle the threads of emotions and thoughts into a weave that puts me back in my body and back in the present…