My ordeal was long ago and I’m fine. For far too many others, this story is today, this story is now, and this story is how they will die.
Author: erin
Erin Vang, PMP, BMus, MMus, is Owner and Principal Pragmatist of the consultancy Global Pragmatica LLC®, offering custom JMP scripting, localization program management, and facilitative leadership services. She is also an orchestral horn player who freelanced in the San Francisco Bay Area and played assorted brass for the celebrated dance bands Midnight Smørgåsbord and contraPtion. She now conducts all her nefarious activities from Vanghalla, in Helena, Montana, where she's principal hornist of the Helena Symphony. More about Erin…
daily kaddish: for those who don’t escape
[powerpress] A kaddish for those who don’t escape domestic abuse situations.
daily kaddish: tsunami
[powerpress] For the victims of Japan’s 8.9 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor disaster in Fukushima.
daily kaddish: zsuzsi’s mom
[powerpress] For my friends Zsuzsi and Denis’s mother[-in-law], a Holocaust survivor.
daily kaddish: response and call
[powerpress] In recent recordings, I tried to play in response to the call of the rhythm and shape of Mira’s reading of the “bismilleh kaddish” text. In this recording, I tried instead to play in anticipation of her pre-recorded text, trying to do call to her response. It was difficult; as familiar as I am…
daily kaddish: text jazz
[powerpress] Here I tried to improvise music in a jazzy style to the sound of Mira’s text.
counting cards with my grumpy grampa
I never gave my grampa his due, but I’m starting to appreciate him.
daily kaddish: flügelhorn blues
[powerpress] A recording on flügelhorn in a bluesy style.
daily kaddish: horn accompaniment
[powerpress] This time I foregrounded Mira’s voice and let the improvised horn music be a background accompaniment.
daily kaddish: f*@$ing taxes
[powerpress] In which your intrepid hornist was fried after a long day of working on her tax return.