A room full of people gathered to watch a man sit at a piano and hold a timer for over 4 minutes. A couple blog posts ago, I mentioned a man named John Cage: an American composer and music theorist. More specifically, I talked about Cage’s piece: 4′ 33” where he sits at an open […]

I’ve written about all sorts of wondrous musical phenomena on this blog. I was surprised when I realized I hadn’t yet talked about the world of Penn State jazz. A world I find myself entangled in more and more the longer I am here at PSU. My first encounter with PSU jazz was during the […]

I found a lot of ways to get involved musically when I arrived at Penn State. However, upon entering into my second semester of my freshman year of college, I decided I wanted to participate in even more music than I already was. Though I was in PSU jazz club, jam club, had the occasional […]

This post is somewhat of a throwback to a blogging idea I took up early on in my days of musical blogging. A couple of my earlier posts consisted of me going up to random strangers with earbuds and asking them what song they were listening to. I would analyze the song and try to […]

This is gonna be a fun one. While working on my “This I Believe” speech for class, I thought a lot about my younger self. Of course when I think about my past, it’s inevitable that at some point I’ll start thinking about music. Before I get into that though, there needs to be some […]

Disclaimer: I’d like to start this and really should start most of my blog posts with HIGHLY recommending pulling out earbuds. You will not regret it. If you’ve skimmed or read my blog page before, you’d know that I previously wrote a post about the prevalence and significance of improvisation in music (Peanut Butter and […]

This post is going to be quite different from my previous ones. Though this is a music blog, I’m going to be talking about a movie -though of course it’s a movie about music- I just watched. This past weekend, I watched a 2014 movie called “Whiplash”, written and directed by Damien Chazelle. This movie […]

Warning! I suggest you wear earbuds while you read this so you can ready yourself to hear some amazing music. There are hundreds of innovations that permeate throughout the world of music technology and music production. The many musical discoveries that led to the technology we use today harnesses an environment of creativity and exploration […]

In life, we never know what will happen next. We can make predictions and -to an extent- shape our future based on our choices and experiences; but still, the future is unknown. This uncertainty in life has plagued humans for centuries. In fact, it’s done so in such an extreme way that French philosopher Albert […]

Can you think of a song that you listen to at least once a month? How about once a day? What about each hour? Now how about every 15 minutes? Now that’s crazy! You might be wondering; why am I asking these ridiculous questions, and who in this world listen’s to the exact same melody […]