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Ed Rocha Gonçalves's avatar

Great essay Damon 👌🏻 Love to hear (read) your input on different aspects of sound, music and the industry itself. You always manage to have an interesting angle and sprinkle us with a little history at the same time. You must be awesome to sit next to at dinner parties! Keep it up 👍🏻

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garelickjon@gmail.com's avatar

Fascinating piece, Damon. I love this bit: "I am not the same listener I was before I first heard that piece; it stretched my understanding of possibilities for composition, for group improvisation, and for use of the voice." Tangentially, I'm curious what you'd think of Henry Threadgill's recent memoir, in which he talks about his perception of sound and how it was changed profoundly by his experience in Vietnam, where careful listening could mean the difference between life and death. Literally.

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