by Peter Saltzman | May 28, 2019 | IOTL
Ways to Listen: A Free Improvisation Goes Wrong, meaning Exactly Right (transcription below) When a free improvisation doesn’t go the way I planned it leads me to the conclussion that sometimes the best-laid plans are unlaid plans. But really, it’s a...
by Peter Saltzman | May 17, 2019 | IOTL
Ways to Listen: On Stevie Wonder and the Problem of non-infinite Melodies I accidentally (if there are any accidents) improvise a melody that sounds somewhat like a Stevie Wonder tune, which takes me down a rabbit hole of musical connectedness and its close...
by Peter Saltzman | May 8, 2019 | IOTL
facebook twitter LinkedIn Ways to Listen: I Love a Good Tune My previous podcast was a defense of musical complexity in a time of musical dumbing down. But that does not mean I’m about complexity for its own sake. In truth, musical complexity should arise out of...
by Peter Saltzman | May 6, 2019 | IOTL
Ways to Listen: It’s OK to be Complex! We live in strange musical times. OK, fine, we live in strange times, period. But as a musician who came up during the 1960s & 70s, it is, admittedly,  difficult to negotiate the current musical landscape, particularly...