“This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing”.

When two drunk men sing, a spirit of air and light catches the melody underlying their brawling voices and plays it it such that it enchants those who failed to do it justice by their broken voices, guttural with vomit. Shakespeare in The Tempest (Act 3 Scene 2) attempts to show how music might sound … More “This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing”.

“The man that hath no music in himself,/ … Let no such man be trusted”. We can’t escape the ambiguous personal politics of music.

What would your life be like without music? The sound of the concord or discord of the world are only unheard in the cold of a tomb. There is no life where music does not happen, for the nervous system is attuned to the to a range of sounds that align with feelings of security … More “The man that hath no music in himself,/ … Let no such man be trusted”. We can’t escape the ambiguous personal politics of music.