by Peter Saltzman | Aug 5, 2019 | Aesthetic Scholarship, IOTL, Music, Words
I never much cared for minimalism until I minimally did. To get right to the point… To get right to the point… To get right to the point… I never much cared for the style of music music music music musi mus mu called minimalism ...
by Peter Saltzman | Jul 31, 2019 | Aesthetic Scholarship, IOTL, Music, Words
In which I do battle with the almost perfect symmetry in John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” to try to create something a little messy and asymmetrical. Have you ever listened to a piece of music that impressed you on its technical merits but left you cold? This happens to...
by Peter Saltzman | Jul 8, 2019 | Aesthetic Scholarship, IOTL, Piano
The episode in which anything can happen but mostly doesn’t… In episodic television (Seinfeld, Friends, etc.), a bottle episode is one in which the writers mostly take leave of the regular format, opting for a cheaply produced, one-set show that often...
by Peter Saltzman | May 1, 2016 | Aesthetic Scholarship
The Story behind Blues, Preludes & Feuds I’ve been trying to fold words into music (and vice versa) ever since I began putting lyrics to my tunes in my early 20s. Songwriting is, of course, just that—the art of making words get along with melody, harmony, rhythm,...