My Band Is Better Than We Sound

Music straddles duality. It's where rigid mathematics meets organic spontaneity. When I was young, I fought against having to count time. I thought it wrecked the magic, like when Mr. Rogers (Peace Be Upon Him) showed everyone the button he used to make Trolley move back and forth. Later, I realized that musical time, like time itself, was just a way of knowing where you are, like numbering verses in the Bible or dropping breadcrumbs in the forest. Songs are maps of metaphysical terrain. Music is both wave and particle. A beat is a geometrical point. A tone is a line. Speed up the beats and they morph into a buzz and eventually: a tone. Using inspiration and secrets of sacred geometry, musical "shapes" are constructed. Like different molecules combine into different forms of matter, so do geometrically manipulated sounds form different vibrations which then have an effect on us. While Ella Fitzgerald can sing a note so high a glass breaks, the inverse is also true.

I write songs that provide affordable health care.