by Peter Saltzman | Jun 24, 2019 | IOTL
A Very Promising Theme Written for a Sad Scene in a Movie…What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (transcription below) I’ve written a few movie scores and had a few tracks placed on TV shows. What I’ve come to learn, though, is that due to my musical ego,...
by Peter Saltzman | Jun 24, 2019 | Music, One Human Minute
Harvest Moon The One Minute Songs Return—and not a second too soon! One Human Minute by Peter Saltzman I love my one-minute songs like the brilliant, recalcitrant children they are. But I needed a break from them. And they from me. The universe has a way of telling...
by Peter Saltzman | Jun 18, 2019 | IOTL
You may hate the avant-garde but, dammit, you need it more than you think. (transcription below) The musical Avant-Garde in general and Avant-Garde jazz, in particular, have either misleading or no connotations at all for most listeners (and non-listeners.) Say the...
by Peter Saltzman | Jun 10, 2019 | IOTL
Ways to Listen: A bluesy improvisation on the theme from the slow movement of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto inevitably leads me down the path of noninevitability. (transcription below) But why did it lead me back to Leonard Bernstein for the 2nd episode out of...
by Peter Saltzman | Jun 6, 2019 | IOTL
Ways to Listen: My recording equipment was flipping out (or maybe It was me). Which may seem like a hindrance to artistic expression but then I realized that the flipping out was part of the flipping art! (transcription below) I’m trying out a new audio...
by Peter Saltzman | Jun 3, 2019 | IOTL
Ways to Listen: I Try to Write a Blues That Doesn’t Really Sound Like A Blues…but only if You’ve Already Decided What A Blues Sounds Like (transcription below) What is a blues? A genre? Musical form? A scale? It’s all of those things and more...