November 4, 2013
Rimbaud the Prodigy
We are used to mathematical prodigies—a Ramanujan, a Pascal, an Evariste Gaulois—leaping to some early, complete insight closed off to the merely talented or well-practiced. Musical prodigies, too, are well-documented; […]
December 22, 2012
Language as an Artistic Medium
Visual art, language, and music fall along a spectrum whose two ends are the “representative” and the “nonrepresentative.” By “representation” I mean of the physical world. Historically, a visual art […]
June 1, 2012
A Craft Note On the Duet (part 4) and On the Elegy (part 2)
Several several weeks ago now, Tarfia Faizullah and I exchanged notes on the elegy in what was billed as the first part of a multi-part craft note on the elegy. […]
September 12, 2011
Wunderkammer: Character Development and 80s Music
Wunderkammer: Character Development in 80s Music Whenever I struggle with character development, I turn to James Wood, then Sheila E. That’s right. Sheila E. Here’s what Wood has to say […]