by Peter Saltzman | May 26, 2020 | IOTL, Piano
In this episode, I do battle with Philip Glass and, by extension, the entire genre of minimalism. To my surprise, though, I found that even while I reject the aesthetic as a whole, there’s plenty I can take from it creatively—but only by adapting some of its...
by Peter Saltzman | May 15, 2020 | IOTL, Piano
If you’ve been composing and/or improvising for long enough, you will no doubt encounter the inescapable reality that you can’t create music in a vacuum, that every phrase you write/play is somehow connected to what someone else (or you) created in the past. In this...
by Peter Saltzman | May 10, 2020 | IOTL
I was watching Jerry Seinfeld’s new standup release on Netflix the other night and it put me in the mind of nothing. Specifically, how we build music out of essentially meaningless sound events that end up adding up to…something? Music: Scale Scale...