Blog as Conversation

Most of the posts on this blog are actually suggested by conversations of the previous day, sometimes in lessons, sometimes over coffee, sometimes after my in-house recitals, or rehearsals.

I invite you, dear reader, to participate on this level with remarks, questions, suggestions, objections, etc., either posted to the blog or via email to me: nancygarniez@tonalrefraction.com.  The worst thing that can happen is that the conversation will not go anywhere at the time.

Sometimes when I hear a public presentation, as just happened in Seoul at the conference on Music Perception and Cognition, I make a comment that appears to fall flat.  Thud....silence.  In a later exchange that same comment, slightly varied, may produce a nod of recognition, a smile, or even a stream of consciousness reference to some shared source of insight.  At any rate, even the thud will have proved useful.

We are all in this together.