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Three teenagers playing music together informally in a living room — piano, flute, and guitar

Motivating the Modern Student

Elán and Žbirka didn't give me piano technique. They gave me a reason why it was worth using at all.
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A silhouetted pianist at a grand piano, overlaid with chalk-style diagrams of the circle of fifths, golden ratio spirals, and sound wave ratios

When They Call You Mad

Say out loud that music is mathematics, and people look at you like you've announced the Earth is flat — but the octave alone gives you a ratio you can verify with a measurement.
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An extreme close-up of piano keys, softly lit with warm reflected light

Maresía

A quiet piano miniature, written for an album's opening track, turned out to be the first new composition I'd written in twenty-six years.
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MIDI keyboard beside a laptop running music production software, with handwritten sheet music and a piano in the foreground

The Other Kinds of Knowing

An old ATARI and a Korg M1 once taught me the difference between imagining music and truly hearing it — a lesson IT would repeat decades later, in an entirely different language.
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Woman seen from behind on the phone beside an upright piano

The Phone Call

Some phone calls change everything, and you only realize it much later. This is the story of music that waited thirty-six years for me — without my knowing it existed.
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