Vipassana

My Pulse colleague Joe Phillips's brilliant, sprawling, massively ambitious and deeply moving Vipassana will be performed at Makor tonight. Joe's music is thoroughly compelling on a purely aesthetic plane, but perhaps it's also worth noting, in light of this discussion, that it also completely destroys stereotypes of what music written by an African-American composer is supposed to sound like.

If you're unfamiliar with Joe's work, get thee to his MySpace page. His music, his drive, and his friendship have meant a lot to me. My own music would be very different (and much poorer) if we'd never met.

Comments

[Dan]

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Thanks for the info, I hadn't heard Mr. Phillips' music before but the stuff he has up on myspace is absolutely beautiful.