#black compositional thought

[extramusical]

The creative process is about swimming in the paradox. Hypershapes reminds me that the act of looking in every direction at once, or moving while absolutely still, all of it is in my blood. It’s a trans position of being liberated. The waters are rising, the bridges are giving, the air is shocking, the belonging is fragile, the interstitial is liveness. Graphite, marker, glass on wood. 2022 via Instagram / Torkwase Dyson

[ethicopoliticolit]

Big Ups, No Follow

One of the bedrock principles of the first era of my academic teaching career (2010–2021) was to connect new learnings to past learnings. And as I move forward in this just-beginning nine-year cycle—with the Year of the Fire Horse in the offing—I have the chance to practice what I preached to my students on this very blog (“blog” being a throwback term I’m reclaiming in the context of WordPress’s…

Big Ups, No Follow