Foxy Digitalis
The more I got into The Vex Collection’s forthcoming debut, the more I started thinking about music made with or focused around instruments with double reeds. So while I started doing a little of my own digital crate digging, it made more sense to get outside reinforcements. Considering how unique the approach of the ensemble is […]
When I was a child I used to sit in the bath and swirl the water around as fast as I could for as long as my arms would allow, trying to create a whirlpool to a new world. I’ve watched my daughter do the same thing, though less so in recent years, but I […]
David Watson’s upcoming collaboration with Matthew Welch, Woven, is an ecstatic vision of bagpipe reverie. It’s music that will simultaneously lift spirits and blow down the walls. For decades, Watson has been an enigmatic piper pushing the limits of his instrument and composing pieces that expand listeners’ ideas of what bagpipe music is and can be. Woven is […]