Monthly Archives: July 2006

Bread in restaurants: why don’t they cut it all the way through? Instead, you get “slices” that stop about 7/8 of the way through, and then you have to rip off the rest. Is this supposed to make us feel … Continue reading →

Of late the convergence in my world seems to be centering around tempo changes, in the most literal sense of the word — i.e., changes of speed in music. In particular, though, I’m concerned mostly with non-notated tempo changes. I … Continue reading →

When I was a kid the audio world was still in the monophonic hi-fi stage, for the most part. Stereo recording was already in existence, but stereo LPs were extremely few and far between, and almost nobody had stereo players. … Continue reading →