“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a… — Geoffrey O'Brien Artifacts 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… — Geoffrey O'Brien Cybersecurity 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… — Geoffrey O'Brien Barriers 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,… — Geoffrey O'Brien Communication 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… — Geoffrey O'Brien Books 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… — Geoffrey O'Brien Captured 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… — Geoffrey O'Brien Discovery 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… — Geoffrey O'Brien Life 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… — Geoffrey O'Brien Music-history Copy Share Image
