In recent years, my main interest as a composer and performer has been to explore how and in what ways a piece of music can transcend mere pitches in order to evoke the inner life of our being through its musical morphology, structural relations, and formal design. As a composer, I continue to imagine musical [...]

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I just recently revisited a work originally written for piano solo in 2007, Inner Self. In this keyboard miniature, now scored for for pipe organ solo, I explored the idea of a self-enduced and closed transformational process. While it might texturally resemble a Baroque trio sonata, its contrapuntal [...]

Aniruddh Patel, Ph. D., a San Diego-based neuroscientist of The Neuroscience Institute in San Diago, CA, presents a fascinating lecture on music and the mind. A clarinetist and classical guitarists himself, Dr. Patel offers a very engaging discussion on what happens in our mind when we listen to music.