(This is part 3 of the series. Read the previous parts here: 1, 2) A very early sketch of the music How It’s Made There are few things more intimidating to an artist than the blank canvas or the empty page. Many times I have been asked, “How do you write music?” as if the process was some ...
2 – A Dialogue with the Cross of Christ
(This is part 2 of the series. Read the previous part here: 1) Ruthwell Cross, inscribed with parts of the "Rood" poem. Origins The Old English poem, the “Dream of the Rood” is fascinating on many levels. The author of the poem is anonymous, though there are a few educated guesses as to their identity. The text ...
1 – The Road to the Rood
The opening lines of the "Rood" from the Vercelli manuscript Modern Heretics Like many things, my setting of the Anglo-Saxon poem, the “Dream of the Rood”, began as part of a long intellectual and spiritual journey. In my field of modern and experimental art music, every composer is searching for a unique voice, a signature in ...
What Is Neuestalgia?
I thought it fitting for my first post to explain the name of the blog where I’ve chosen to locate my writings. Names are important, after all: they identify our essence, our substance in a manner much more present than a simple label can. They can tell us where we have been, and sometimes even ...
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