Feral Flute

(This was originally posted in June of 2013. Since I've spent the last year recording music next to running water, I decided to share th...

I picked up a double whistle, just for kicks, a while ago. It was cheap and I figured it would be fun to use from time to time for a silly l...

Got the digital tracks uploaded! Have physical CDs for in person. Here's a look at the art and program notes to the 3rd solo recording ...

Lately, I’ve been reading about Turtles and Tortoises in folk tales and mythologies. It wasn’t deliberate. I went looking for some stories a...

I'm going off topic in this post because I think this story needs to be told. The passport agency is rejecting birth certificates for na...

This post is about a pet peeve of mine; what time signatures really mean. First, let me go over what a time signature is for the non-music...

Micro-tones. These are all my personal observations and not a complete survey or study and may be quite wrong. Micro-tones are notes tha...

Many people say music is a language. I agree. Except I would go further; Music is not just one language. It is a polyglot of many languages...

When I was 13, I went out into the woods and began to teach myself to improvise and compose. I did not know it at the time though. I began b...

My mother planted Yucca flowers next to my mail box this summer. (Plant exchanges and free seed fairs result in a lot of gardening whims and...

I recently saw a joke on the internet. There was a picture of some music with a caption asking "what's wrong with this picture?...

Ianuaria, a Celtic/Gaulish Goddess. The information about her is extremely limited but intriguing. At a healing shrine in Beire-le-Chatal, F...

Some people devote themselves to one specific instrument and remain faithful to it their whole lives. Some people fall for multiple instrume...

Flute players sculpt sound into music using their breath as chisels and brushes. Exhalations become brush strokes and molds. Vibrations bec...

“Greensleeves” is one of the most famous English folk songs. It dates from the Renaissance and has picked up a lot of stories and speculatio...