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Letters from a Composer

Jordan Ali

What music means to me, one letter at a time.

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Scenes Of A Life Coming Together

This letter took a long time to come, love, but I’m here.


I still had a couple of cardboard boxes full of books in my living room that I took forever to unpack. This was a very special group of friends coming so I wanted to get the...

7 months ago
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Acceleration

On the train, I learned that the laws of motion are what they are so that we can love on each other despite their fundamental ways.

He came in through the door in front of me, slightly to my left, walking through the crowd with an edge, hi...

8 months ago
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between everything and nothing

Mary Gartside, from New Theory of Colours, 1808 — source

The idea today is a study of a transcendent musical experience, which starts in perception and goes from there, paired with the understanding that perception is relational at core....

a year ago
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The Strangeness of the World

Why does any of this stuff matter

I’ve been writing about an idea that’s connected to phenomenology of perception and the relationship between the self and the world, which is that the “I” doesn’t exist, but is “a value rather than an exis...

a year ago
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The Breath of Meaning

meditations on Tavener's "Song For Athene"

Song For Athene speaks with the breath of reality—by being built through A:B contrasts and by flowing through cycles of building, climax, and resolving across time. It feels as though the composer...

a year ago
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