Circling Crows

 I was sitting and reading in my backyard last summer and happened to look up and see, through the window in my wife's office, a ceiling...

It is a cityscape composed of brutalist polygons and spires, jungle vines, and oddly young asphalt.  Sweeping curves abound in the architec...

 The words "psalter," meaning a book of psalms , and "psaltery," which, in modern usage, is a kind of zither, both come ...

I finished my third instrument (second kit) this past week:  a bowed psaltery .  I first learned that bowed psalteries were a thing while pe...

Nothing is sacred The ceremony sinks Innocence is drowned In anarchy The best lack conviction Given some time to think And the worst are ful...

When I first learned of ambient music -- some 35 years after Brian Eno 's Music for Airports -- one aspect that fascinated me was how c...

So, after all this talk about building instruments, how do they sound?  The bowed clock chime and the kalimba , at least, sound like this: ...