Unconscious Arithmetic

Over the course of my illustrious blogging career, I have started and failed many blogs, each promising to be better than the last. Therefore I can provide no convincing reason why this blog should be better or last longer than any of my other ones, except for this: I have focused my attention to the single subject of music. My blogs in the past have covered everything from film to language to college admissions to bizarre sites I've found on the Internet. Other people's blogs are limited to admittedly small areas of interest such as cupcakes or amazing French instructional videotapes. In this blog I will attempt to restrain my enthusiasm to the still absurdly vast field of "sound in time." (And bizarre sites that I find on the Internet.)

By way of introduction, I'm a 16-year-old musician living in the state of Montana, USA. I play the fiddle, mandolin, and guitar in a variety of styles, including old-time, bluegrass, Celtic, Texas breakdown, Cape Breton, and swing. I enjoy listening to all these as well as classical, jazz, rock, hard rock, showtunes, etc.


This blog's name is derived from the famous Duke Ellington quote, so by way of introduction here are a couple more music quotes, shamelessly ripped off from this page:

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some old music reviews etc. will be provided shortly. Meanwhile, here's an interesting list of things to remember while in the studio.