Dispatch #9
A Version of Infinity I’m Listening to here in July
Jack DeJohnette’s Sound Travels — piano, percussion, global jazz, and the blues standard that still shows up in warmups.
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Deep-Fried America
Dispatches from David Biddle on music, mind, and the strange currents that shaped Sound Effect Infinity — a novel 50 years in the making.
By David Biddle · Sound Effect Infinity
Dispatches
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How long before music becomes a long strange trip?
After fifty years of guitar, twenty minutes of noodling, and the mysterious natural high of waking up your own musicality.
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Creativity and Improvisational Expression as a Higher Form of Consciousness
Paul McCartney, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, and the human magic of jazz, blues, and jam bands.
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Hearing vs. Listening
What it means to actually listen to music — memory, expectation, and how deep sound goes inside.
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Mongos
Mixed-race America, the limits of racial labels, and who we might become by 2052.
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Counting Sunsets
What I've Been Listening to Here in June — SUSS and the ephemeral beauty of ambient music.
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Are There Really Decommissioned Nuclear Missile Silos in the Midwest?
Myths from a Missouri childhood, Nate Hofer's pedal-steel in an Atlas silo, and the Subterranean LSD Palace.
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Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll — and Mind Control
From a bestseller pitch to CIA experiments, paranormal fringe, and the physics of sound.
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The Magic Inside Music
How a summer night in 1968 sparked a lifelong search for the magic inside music.
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