Continue Reading Our Place in the Fabric of the World The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to…
Continue Reading Image before sound It’s Friday January 31, 2020, the end to an insanely wet, politically distressing week. It is the day of Brexit and the…
Continue Reading Sound and Spirit So far this week I have talked about the way sound can affect you, enrich you and bring you closer to the…
Continue Reading Sound Analogies I like each and every sound in a concert hall before and during a performance. The coughing, the rustling of cough drop…
Continue Reading Sound Description Sometimes a piece of writing makes me drool. This, for example: “The piece of music I have in mind lasts only forty-five…
Continue Reading Sound Variations Let’s start this week on a quiet note. Like really quiet, preparing for silence in space – quiet. Not a random choice…
Continue Reading Yom Hashoa 2020 Monday will be Holocaust Remembrance Day. Since words fail me, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, I’ll add up some numbers….
Continue Reading The Year of the Rat Really, all I wanted yesterday was to glimpse some color on an extraordinarily dreary, damp day. Off I went to visit Lan…
Continue Reading Urban Green Spaces Add a third person to the list of those actually managing to make me reluctantly listen to podcasts – next to my…
Continue Reading DEAR DADDY The short clip below has been around for some years now, watched by millions of people. It is an appeal by a…
