Accessing music from all over the world through a few clicks was unthinkable some centuries ago. The invention of mechanisms and artifacts to capture, stock, and reproduce sound has been evolving hand in hand with changing times, although vinyl records are still preferred among audiophiles. Back in the 1850s, the […]
Electronic music history pre-dates the rock and roll era by decades. Most of us were not even on this planet when it began its often obscure, under-appreciated and misunderstood development. Today, this ‘other worldly’ body of sound which began close to a century ago, may no longer appear strange and […]
Many years ago, I had a college friend who was an evangelizing devotee of the abstract painter Marc Rothko. I remember her gushing over a catalog of Rothko’s work, while I was thinking that I must be aesthetically challenged; I just didn’t “get” it. After all, most of the paintings […]