“Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand,… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy, even if the privacy is… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because a formal place has been… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“No season lives here. This space has quite successfully shut out any such interference. The cunning designer saw to it that there is not… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I learned that the day "The Viper's Drag" slipped from between my fingers. But whatever might be lost or broken or forgotten is nothing… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Sound is the most absorbent medium of all, soaking up histories and philosophical systems and physical surroundings and encoding them in something so slight… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
