Music Medicine: What We’re Actually Doing With All This Music
What you’re hearing here today—whether it’s one piece or fifty, whether it has lyrics or not—is part of a larger idea that’s been developing for a while now. We’re not just making songs. We’re working with sound as a tool. All of it.
Every track, every variation, every arrangement—no matter the style—is part of the same experiment. What does this do? Continue reading
I’ve been working on a playlist for the morning show, which you’ll see and hear then. Continue reading
PEGGY LANE – JAZZ INTERPRETATIONS
An E.J. Gold Project
Peggy Lane is a torch singer for the modern age—timeless, intimate, and unmistakably present. With a voice that drifts between velvet restraint and emotional fire, she brings new life to the classic language of jazz interpretation. Continue reading
What if war didn’t need a reason anymore? What if it didn’t need a story, or a cause, or even an enemy? What if all it needed was a system—and a player?
That’s the idea behind War for Fun and Profit. Continue reading
There’s a lot of benefit to be had from listening to the same song in twenty bands playing forty different arrangements.
What you’re really doing there isn’t just “listening to variations”—you’re training the ear to separate essence from appearance. Continue reading
Friends, blog readers, and everyone in our Zoom circle—
Something interesting happened tonight while we were playing around with images. We produced what started as a humorous photo—me standing inside a UFO with two Greys—and then turned it into a magazine cover. The result was surprising. It didn’t just look like a joke or a novelty graphic. It looked like a real pulp magazine cover you might see on a newsstand.
That’s worth thinking about for a moment. Continue reading
Long before the internet, long before encrypted messaging apps, there existed a remarkably simple system that allowed human beings to communicate across great distances — and sometimes right under the noses of people who did not want them to communicate at all.
That system was Morse code. Continue reading
Last night I didn’t write a blog.
Instead, I built something.
Many of you know that I’ve been experimenting with song generation using a very simple but powerful method. Rather than writing one song and polishing it endlessly, I take a lyric idea and send it through a series of different musical environments. Each environment is a different band, style, or arrangement.
Same words.
Different musical universe. Continue reading
Beatless – The Festival That Shouldn’t Exist
Every once in a while something shows up in the music world that nobody can quite explain. No one knows exactly where it started, and no one is completely sure who organized it. Yet suddenly everyone seems to be talking about it. Continue reading
People ask me all the time if I’ve ever had a UFO experience.
I usually pause, look thoughtful, and say, “Define experience.”
But since you asked, here’s what happened. Continue reading