Tag: music
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when the music transports you to a foreign land in which you used to live
I’ve been thinking about how music transports you back to a very specific time and feeling. Specifically, what it feels like to hear old christian songs from my childhood. I can remember and feel exactly what I felt when I sang these songs… but it feels weird because I’m on the other side of it.…
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25 || bibliography
Bibliographies are reminders that we never do the work alone. So much thanks to my friends and to all the people doing their work which inspires mine. As always, this list is inconclusive. bibliography (“25”) Sarah– her kindness leaks into the music and creates such a sweet space to make things. Joel– has a such…
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25 || lyrics
Songs to me are like containers for feelings. Pre-song, a feeling is sprawling, wild, almost *unbearable*, but then after I write the right song for it— it fits somewhere. It fits in the container I made it. It feels more manageable. I can still feel the thing without feeling overwhelmed by it. It is contained.…
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responsible & free
I wrote 25 after a year of realizing that I’m the only one responsible for my career, and that I had a year until I was done with school forever. I felt frightened by the prospect, knowing that sometimes I lie in bed instead of doing work. Knowing that a career in music can be…
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new new old old
Nothing can remove the uncertainty/chaos/confusion of being 25 (except for time itself.) We spend most of our lives in the tension of looking for an answer and not having the answer but so desperately wanting it. Rilke gives solution to the ploy of this young angst telling us to “live the questions now” so that…
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live shows
the gift of a live show is this: once you step into the room, it changes your perception of time. you’ve made the choice to be there, and there you are, and now your only responsibility is to attend to what is in front of you, or around you. it is kind of amazing. i…
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free vs. paid
We pay more attention to the things that we buy for than the things we get for free. If we pay to go see a movie rather than go to a free screening, we have higher expectations of it because we have something on the line. In the past decade, there has been a shift…