an at first sight rather strange collection of stuff. There’s music, there are writings – opinions and experiences about music, about the planet we live on and its inhabitants, and there will be explorations of some topics in more depth. Why any of these parts are, for me, closely related, will I hope emerge in time for those who find the parts interesting.
I decided I needed a place, where the music I make and the things I do and consider worth writing about, could speak for themselves without requiring too much explanation.
It’s a kind of home for my writing and my music. What may or may not constitute “home” and what such a thing means to us, is a kind of unifying topic here. Expect it incidentally in some pieces and centrally in others.
A little illustration of the relationships between the parts starts with a quote from the naturalist and philosopher John Muir.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
I’m privileged to have worked over the last few years with musicians whose playing embodies Muir’s words. They see no conflict between being their own, unique self and being part of a greater whole, which they don’t control but which they affect and are affected by. The greatest creative pleasure lies in that entanglement.
Even when creating solo, one may be the only conscious musician but one is hitched to all those things in our environment, organic and inorganic, static and dynamic, which resonate with all our senses and emotions. All this has served to enhance the way I experience an improvisational creative process. *
Some parts
Things about me that might be relevant
Growing up
Being Somewhere 