Notes from the Margins
Music doesn't exist in a vacuum. Neither do the people who make it.
This is where I think out loud about the things that orbit around sound: literature, film, philosophy, the odd cultural artefact that won't leave me alone. What improvisation and authenticity mean beyond the practice room. How we perform identity, on stage and off.
These essays aren't about music theory or historical performance practice, though those ideas might drift through. They're about the larger questions that shape how we listen, how we create, and what it means to show up as yourself in a world that often rewards the opposite.
Think of this as the territory between disciplines, where the study of how instruments shape sound becomes a lens for examining how culture shapes us.
Not everything here will connect directly to recorders or renaissance flutes or medieval bagpipes. But everything here comes from the same place: a belief that paying attention matters. That close listening (whether to a piece of music, a novel, or a television show) reveals something true about how we live.
Welcome to the margins. The most interesting things happen here.
These are essays, not academic papers. Expect tangents, strong opinions, and the occasional footnote that spirals into its own small universe.