Category Archives: Music

Found on My Desk #2

Posted on 08/31/2025 by chick

Found on my desk: a page of sheet music from a piano piece that Livia had been learning upon which I’d written a quote by Livia: “To music the music, you must ride the chord.” I’m a proud parent and … Continue reading →

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Found on My Desk #1

Posted on 08/29/2025 by chick

Found on my desk: a photocopy of an epigraph from Erling Kagge’s book Walking. You’re walking. And you don’t always realize it But you’re always falling With each step, you fall forward slightly And then catch yourself from falling . … Continue reading →

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Mental Vacation Over

Posted on 08/10/2025 by chick

I had decided to take the entire summer off from music composition lessons, because I was feeling worn out from work and lack of sleep. Meanwhile, Livia had expressed interest in taking piano lessons, and I thought, “Why not give … Continue reading →

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Deliberate Dissonance

Posted on 06/15/2024 by chick

My music teacher wanted me to compose a piece using just six tones (essentially, a mini twelve-tone piece). On the surface, it seemed like something that would be right up my alley, because it’s a type of puzzle. I tried … Continue reading →

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Reading Report: Things You Learn in Your 50s

Posted on 03/11/2024 by chick

Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures by Noah Adams, A– Switching gears from that long fantasy novel, I moved on to this relatively short (248-page) memoir by Noah Adams, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered. In this book … Continue reading →

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3/2/2024

Posted on 03/02/2024 by chick

In addition to my weekly music lessons and composition assignments, I’ve been reading music theory books and websites, listening to recordings, and watching various music-related YouTube videos. I mentioned some things I’d seen online to my teacher, and he said, … Continue reading →

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A Couple of Things I Learned Last Year

Posted on 01/20/2024 by chick

If you need to survive in outer space without a spacesuit, you should not hold your breath. Having a lot of air in your lungs will cause your lungs to explode. Ouch! So let out as much air as you … Continue reading →

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Musical Thinking

Posted on 12/30/2019 by chick

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music Ursula K. Le Guin

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Music for Writing

Posted on 04/28/2019 by chick

Listening to Into the Trees by Zoe Keating. Good music to listen to while writing, or anytime

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Powerful Music

Posted on 04/13/2019 by chick

The problem with writing while listening to soundtrack music is that the grandeur of the music does not always match the writing. I’m listening to the soundtrack to Inception. It’s big, powerful music. While listening to it, I could be … Continue reading →

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