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Planned Chance0:00/2001× My intent was to dive into Part 2 of my “End of Melody Episode,“ but by planned chance, I rolled the dice and came up with something completely different. Unplanned, but fated to be this way? Possibly. Powered by Firstory Hosting
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The End of Melody, Part 10:00/2001× Melody. As a creative musician, you're either born with it or not. Or maybe everybody is born with it but some choose to suppress it. Why would anybody do that? Powered by Firstory Hosting
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The (Un)Quantifiable Mystery of Music0:00/2001× Math, science, and logic can explain a lot but not everything about how music works. The strange thing, though, is that great music almost always has a perfect logic to it. How is that possible? Powered by Firstory Hosting
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Maximal Minimalism: Me v. Philip Glass0:00/2001× 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—
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Everything's Related to Everything Else (Again)0:00/2001× After I finished recording this episode, I remembered that I had already done one early laster season on the same subject. Thus the "again". I didn't go back and listen to that because I gotta
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The Seinfeld Episode...Or How to Make Music Out of Nothing0:00/2001× 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
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S2-E1: CoVidious Improvisations on Covert Thoughts0:00/2001× Season Two is finally here but it’s not at all was I was planning. Befitting the title of the podcast, Improvisations on the Ledge, in fact, resists any serious planning. And yet, for this premiere episode of season two, I
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Season Two Trailer/Teaser0:00/2001× It's been a LONG wait, but season two is just about ready to launch. With an exciting new format and several new features, it will be well worth the wait! Powered by Firstory Hosting
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#28: A Variation on Theme and Variations0:00/2001× What if I came up with a theme in the morning, then improvised variations throughout the day? What would that add up to? Call it a variation on the theme and variations idea, but in the form of a diary of
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"#27: What Not to Think About When Improvising-Featuring Jean-Michel Pilc"0:00/2001× Do you ever think about what you’re thinking about? Of course, you do, and I often think about what I’m thinking about when improvising. But when I pose this question to
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"#26: The Improvised Sonata"0:00/2001× For years I’ve had this thought that I should be able to improvise a full 4-movement piano sonata. Is this just another example of me being completely out of touch with my times? Well yes. But that doesn’t
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IOTL Short #7: Mid-Afternoon Nocturne0:00/2001× In the interests of busting yet another musical myth, I improvise a nocturne in the afternoon. At least it’s relatively dark in its sweetness. Powered by Firstory Hosting