Quicksilver Night News

…are probably not what you expect. I seem to be an outlier among independent artists when it comes to streaming my music versus the purchase thereof in that I WANT you to stream my music more than I want you to download it. To my fellow independent musicians whose hackles are immediately raised by…

… a closer look at this upcoming album The next paragraph is background information; skip to the one that follows if you like. It’s a known fact that I constantly write music as Quicksilver Night. Some time ago I decided to release much of my instrumental music in one fell swoop (the forthcoming “Asymptote”…

Topical Then, Relevant Now … or is it? The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – (generally attributed to) Edmund Burke Exegesis (from the Greek ἐξήγησις from ἐξηγεῖσθαι ‘to lead out’) is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text. Quicksilver…

The Word of the Day is “Ambience” 🙂 Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was perhaps the seventh or eighth album I’d ever gotten in my young life (long ago, yes) and had a huge impact on the way I listened to music and my understanding of what popular music could be in…

You know, “Latest News” and all that… 🙂 The “Presque Vu” mini EP is approaching 80K cumulative streams on Spotify but the curve of that approach has largely flattened; it might well hit 100k by the end of the year but unless something else happens to goad things between now and then I don’t…

… A little bit about the songs “Symmetry” & “October Skies” by way of example. I sometimes write poetry but it seldom lends itself well as lyrical verse. When I am inspired to write lyrics, however, my process usually leads me to superimpose words over a previously composed melody, sort of like poetry but…

Seeing the Forest for the Trees… “It was six men of IndostanTo learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind),That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.” The above is the first verse of “The Blind Men and the Elephant” by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887). You can…