Posts tagged "music"

And the wonderful, astonishing truth is that the arts are utterly useless. You can’t eat music or poetry or dance. You can’t drive your car on a sonnet it or wear it on your back to shield you from the elements. This “uselessness” is why politicians and other painfully literal-minded people during times of budget crises (which is pretty much all the time now) can’t wait to single the arts out for elimination. For them artistic activity is strictly after-school business. They consider that what we do can’t honestly be compared to the real business of life, that art is entertainment and ultimately non-essential. They don’t realize that what we artists offer is one of the few things that make human life meaningful, that through our skill and our talent and through the way that we share our rich emotional lives we add color and texture and depth and complexity to their lives.

John Adam’s Address for Juilliard 160th Commencement 

( Amazing speech given at the Juilliard Commencement in May. I really urge everyone who is studying the arts to read it through, it’s exactly what a graduating class (of which some day all of us will be) needs to hear to remember why they are doing what they do. )


Graphical visualizations of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” as played by the lead Violin. 

my flute teacher asked me once how I “see” music. She told me that to her, music has different colors based on whatever style, texture or ambiance is being portrayed. I’m not sure what my musical visions are - I feel as if i’m either imagining the staff with moving notes or my fingers - but after finding this little link, I better understand what she meant by “seeing colors.” 

special thanks to my best friend rachel for sharing this blog with me. I wouldn’t have stumbled upon this without her! 

Graphical visualizations of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” as played by the lead Violin. 

my flute teacher asked me once how I “see” music. She told me that to her, music has different colors based on whatever style, texture or ambiance is being portrayed. I’m not sure what my musical visions are - I feel as if i’m either imagining the staff with moving notes or my fingers - but after finding this little link, I better understand what she meant by “seeing colors.” 

special thanks to my best friend rachel for sharing this blog with me. I wouldn’t have stumbled upon this without her! 


very cool architecture/music project, I’m all about it! 

Musical Architecture for New Orleans 


so cool! best recording medium I have ever heard of. 
click through link is the source, here’s the band’s blog. 

so cool! best recording medium I have ever heard of. 

click through link is the source, here’s the band’s blog


better than finale. 

better than finale. 


Biorhythm - Music Gets Physicalrt

awesome. 

awesome. 


want for the apartment! 

want for the apartment! 



lighted drum sticks create amazing art.

lighted drum sticks create amazing art.