childhood

The Domestic Dispute returns!

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Jonathan Andrew Govias

I occupied my mandated daily half hour by playing through things as best I could, trying to play fewer wrong notes each time without any conscious strategy or method, in a pseudo-Bachian optimism that if I were to hit most of the right keys at roughly the right time, the device would in fact play itself.

Poison and Pedagogy – revisiting the purpose of movement in music education

Posted on January 23, 2012January 24, 2012 by Jonathan Andrew Govias

There's a fundamental biological connection between external physicality and internal feeling, and what's more, the relationship isn't unidirectional. Further research into embodied cognition seems to indicate that thought or emotion motivates physiological response - to the extent of effecting even how we sit in a chair - as much as the inverse.