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dance accompaniment kit

Here is the stuff I’ve found online about playing for dance classes. I initially got inspired to learn how to accompany dance last year watching a composition class at Interlochen. Something about how human it was, the inclusion of open ended musicality, improvisation, the “reading of the room” all spoke to me. On to my…

were drum corps forms better before?

I just realized why drum corps kinda sucks now, and it’s something I haven’t been able to put my finger on until revisiting shows from ~2010-2013. SCV 2013 has forms. The entire ensemble is committed to presenting a cogent set of images and there is “thematic development” of the imagery. Even when clusters form, they…

beatrice and virgil

I found Beatrice and Virgil at Grounds for Thought in Bowling Green Ohio, over to the left of my tiny table perch while waiting to get my car inspected. This coffee shop has a wraparound floor plan and the secret back area is usually dead silent with a nice musty bookstore odor to accompany your…

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