by Peter Saltzman | Nov 19, 2021 | IOTL, Music
The moment a theme is stated, it wants to do something. What? Like all lifeforms, it wants to replicate, mutate, transform…become something. That something is musical structure. How we get from a single note to a theme (motif), to a full-blown musical structure (song,...
by Peter Saltzman | Nov 3, 2021 | IOTL, Music
Musical themes seem to emerge from the sonic abyss almost by their own volition. But where do they come from? Are they elusive attempts to describe the moment? State of musical mind? Emotion translated into sound? Or are they just, as I discussed in the previous...
by Peter Saltzman | Oct 24, 2021 | Featured Album, Music, One Human Minute
No Time Like the… When I began time-releasing this album of one-minute songs in 2018, I proposed to get it done in a year. Boy was I wrong! 60 0ne-minute songs may seem doable in a year’s time—and in fact I completed the writing in primary production for...
by Peter Saltzman | Oct 24, 2021 | Featured Track, Music
Peter Saltzman · Signifying White Man 4 15 PM The Musicians in My Head This track comes from an album is “in the works.” I’m still culling through several tracks to not only see what fits, but what fits together collectively. In the meantime…...
by Peter Saltzman | Sep 30, 2020 | Featured Track, Uncategorized
Peter Saltzman · The Song In Between-09_16_2020 Lyrical Improvisation The song in between what? In between all of the other non-song stuff that happens? That can’t be it because I really think of all my improvisations as extended songs—tunes that go beyond...
by Peter Saltzman | Aug 29, 2020 | Featured Track
Best of Piano Diaries by Peter Saltzman I was with either my ex-girlfriend or my dad when I first went to a Keith Jarrett concert. Either way, she was there, which may be the reason why it was also the last. I should go again. I was 15—beginning my sophomore year in...