Prelude

This will be a blog not so much about music as about everything around music. Perceptions and impressions. Emotions, ideas. Tangents.

It won’t be reviews or criticism per se, although sometimes I might write about shows I went to years ago or albums that came out decades ago.

It won’t be about musicians or their craft, necessarily. I may interview a musician here or there. From time to time I might transcribe a melody or chart a chord progression that strikes my fancy.

It won’t be scientific, but it will have a lot to do with hearing and perception. There are fascinating differences in how music is consumed, experienced and remembered from listener to listener.

While I will certainly make recommendations, I also will resist snobbery. Perhaps somewhere there’s an antidote to the oneupmanship and shaming that so often infects our conversations about music.

About the title of this blog: In musical notation, zögernd means to play hesitantly. That is how I plan write — without much certainty even after much reflection.