DAN JACOB WALLACE

I first read this article about improvisation by Sonny Sharrock about 20 years ago, and it always stuck with me. It’s interesting to revisit it now. I find it just as fascinating. By the way, I don’t agree with his statement that 90% of Jazz is improvised. It’s much much much less than that (20% [...]

Is timbre the new melody?

Battleship Pretension is an ejoyable movie-centric podcast I’ve been listening to lately. They come up with a topic for each episode (like “Indie Filmmakers Going Mainstream”) and explore it. Sometimes they have guests from the LA comedy scene, but mostly it’s just the two of them. It’s definitely for film fanatics (or in my case, I haven’t [...]

Back in the summer of 2006, I was asked by the now retired e-zine Harmonium to write about a “Perfect Pop Song” of my choosing. Looking at it now, I could ditch the 4th and maybe even 5th paragraphs. Anyhow, here’s what I submitted: The phrase “Perfect Pop Song” evokes a lot of auditory images [...]