In April, 2013 I received an email from Jesse Strauss, a student at Belmont University, asking for my thoughts about an article by Vida Chenoweth in which she reached some conclusions about the terms xylophone and marimba. I often speak about the distinctions that differentiate these terms, and there is a posting on my Articles… Read more »

Michael Craden (1941 – 1982) was one of the original members of NEXUS until his passing in 1982.  He was formally educated in the visual arts – painting and sculpture – but he was entirely self-taught as a musician.  When NEXUS was in its formative period in the late 1960s, Michael was living in Toronto,… Read more »

Click the link below to download my article about John Cage from the September 2012 issue of Percussive Notes. Encounters with John Cage

Or, in this case, learn to read music if you’re going to tattoo musical notation to someone’s arm – permanently! Recently, I had the unique experience of meeting a young guy working on a construction crew who had a giant tattoo wrapping around  his arm from his wrist to his elbow.  He was in his… Read more »