Charm School

 Kafka was a documentarist.

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

Rules for Students and Teachers by John Cage:

Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile.

General duties of a student—pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.

General duties of a teacher—pull everything out of your students.

Consider everything an experiment.

Be self-disciplined—this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.

The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.

Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.

Ten years ago today:

9 Sep 2015: Closing in on the end of the Op.129. This is one smoking piece.

As promised (or threatened) yesterday, Taking a cue both from Robert’s piece being titled Four’s the Charm, and recent viewing of Macbeth, I decided I wanted to write a short new piece for the October concert called Peace! The charm’s wound up, and that it would mostly be a kind of fugue.