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Bob Wiseman believes most things in life are universal or, as Lauryn Hill says, everything is everything. Bearing in mind that advice, Wiseman writes about finding the link between music and daily life, like what is common between Mary Margaret O Hara, hiding around the corner with the lights turned off in order to record herself and his 5-year-old insisting he stop hurrying to her dance lesson and marvel at the fluff ball she is blowing toward the ceiling. Each entry is unique and compellingly written, but the themes throughout on improvisational music, life lessons, and conflict are ubiquitous.

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Publié par	Ecw Press
Date de parution	06 juillet 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781773054940
Langue	English

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Music Lessons
Bob Wiseman

Praise for Music Lessons
“More than any other musician I’ve interviewed (okay, except Leonard Cohen maybe), Bob Wiseman has the capacity and curiosity to put together two ideas so different and so seemingly unrelated, they hardly belong in the same brain, let alone the same sentence. And that, I’ve since discovered, is what great music is all about.”
— Bruce Headlam, co-host of Broken Record
“Wiseman’s Music Lessons belongs beside Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book , John Cage’s ‘one-minute stories’ and Eduardo Galeano’s collections of stories. Equal parts wisdom and whimsy, these are ‘lessons’ for musicians, parents, artists and anyone who wants to learn better to pay attention.”
— Chris Cavanagh, storyteller, the Catalyst Centre Popular Education Co-op
“Reading Music Lessons is like listening to the finest of mix-tapes, curated by that disarmingly philosophical friend who knows way more about music than you do. A must-read for musicians, students of music, parents of students of music and anyone who’s ever thought an MRI machine sounds like industrial ambient rock.”
— Carolyn Taylor of Baroness von Sketch
“o my, this is fucking genius!!! making me smile like a 2 month old baby farting!!! real fucking cool style of writing. i’m sold on being amazed by page 2!”
— Rami Faffee of Foo Fighters
“You can say what you like about Bob Wiseman, but I would like to see you try and make it stick.”
— Peter Paul Van Camp, poet
“Inspired by the mysterious and the ordinary, Wiseman offers insightful observations about the musician’s life. Whether he is passionately listening to music, to his daughter’s questions, to struggling students, or to industry professionals, Wiseman delivers the playful musings of a skillful story teller.”
— Leanna McLennan, writer and educator
“Like most of Bob Wiseman’s artistic endeavours, his book Music Lessons flows effortlessly, teeming with all the honesty, insight, curiosity, humour, integrity, originality, quirkiness, and mischievousness you’ve come to expect from this amazing, singular voice.”
— Greg Richling, music producer, formerly of The Wallflowers
“Now that these entries have been published, I have no more use for FB.”
— Steve Jordan, founder, Polaris Music Prize
“ Music Lessons has taught me to never underestimate the keyboard virtuosity of its author, whether it be via a piano tsunami, or a typed tirade well-tempered by poetry and wit.”
— John Oswald, composer
“Bob embodies the Toronto I lived in for ten years. Self deprecating, artistically puritanical, and totally comfortable wearing overalls at the bank.”
— Graham Wagner, writer for The Office and Portlandia
“Each little bonsai-essay, exchange, or pedestrian encounter (the sweet lemon-drop, the subtle caramel, or the tart Swedish Fish) makes you glad Mr. Wiseman took the trouble to write these memorable, provocative, and deeply intelligent/inquisitive/poetic/philosophical improvisations.”
— David Gaines, writer/actor/teacher
“Wiseman’s bite-size anecdotes, koans, allegories and highly stylish fragments, torn either from his memoirs or the pages of user manuals for unknown appliances, are super-smart, hilarious, highly addictive and persistent in their insistence on lingering in the reader’s mind long after first encounter! Bravo, Bob!”
— Guy Maddin, filmmaker

Contents Praise for Music Lessons Dedication Epigraph Really Nanton, Alberta The Day B Part G# Star Wars Miles Davis The Job Market Deciphering Making Life Slo Mo Teleportation Best Concert, James Tenney Memories of Being Destroyed on First Listen Attitude Problem Unconscious Pitch Now You Take My CD, Please One Less Bridge Rate On The Agent Business Reincarnation Little Big Umwelt Did You Get the Joke? Stanley Cowell 90 Loop Pedal On Hold Mensch Award Who Else Would It Be? Ginkgo Kombucha — Steve Gadd Secret Is But a Joke TIFF Bad Song Shhhh Mind Fail 20 Years Ago, Detroit Telling Children to Look Closer Three Songs Trick or Treat Open Stage Part 1 Open Stage Part 2: OZ Job Interview The Bus Memory When Countering Monster Music Touring Italy Pt. 1 Types of Teaching Touring Italy Pt. 2 Everybody Knows Dreams, Talent and Loss Hat Trick Touring Italy Pt. 3 Two Prince Fans Sometimes Trained Monkey Ai Weiwei Touring Italy Pt. 4 Zen Koan Piano Hey Ya Even Zeus the God Can’t Think Straight Mother’s Day Held Hostage Whoever Is Producing The Grant Pt. 1 Robert Lepage Superhero Art Mum Playlist The Grant Pt. 2 Touring Italy Pt. 5 Overheard on Subway or Instant Anger Gonna Get You Identi-Key Back at Bias The Grant Pt. 3 Touring Italy Pt. 6 Best Bio Sam Larkin Sun Ra Joseph Beuys Angry Bob Two Jobs I Don’t Believe in I Ching Switches EW&F Touring Italy Pt. 7 beep bla beep bla beep bla beep bla Maracas Hanging with Bullies Chrysalis Easy Answer Hecklers Don Van Vlietstreet The Sounds Inside Stage Fright Ayn Rand, Pastorius and Professor Advice The Mistake Piano Symmetry Sportchek Deterrence Some Whens Pianist Arrives Birds of Fire Little Streams Jack Layton Improvising The Scholarship List Blues Dear Abby Voice in Head Who Would Serpico Be? About Hearing Grants American Beauty Heavyweights Legacy Toss-Up Reading in the Sauna After the Dog Story Frosh Week In My Blood Like Holy Wine Birch Trees in Private Harmonica Get Out the Door 24 Future Stamp Ideas for Canada Post Mystery Words Beached Envy Fridge Magnet Man Listening to Kenny G Still Waiting Purple City The Juno for Doublespeak Music and Flies Never Thought People Would Accept It Wish List Scarlett’s Room Collaboration Trick More Testing Needed Savasana Putting It Off Sacred Music Wary New Age X-Files Security Ronnie Hawkins Real Estate Forgetting Lyrics Musical Toronto Things Listen to Part of My CD Methods of Failure 2 Nominations Touring Italy Pt. 8 Déjà Vu City of Wood Autotune Taking Direction Jonius Pt. 1 Jonius Pt. 2 Skydiving from the Couch Factory Arpeggios Critic Normal Reeling in Wretching Out 5 F Student Excerpts Piano for Real Do Re Mi Understanding What’s Wrong with This Picture? Mind Reading, Not Care of Cell 44 Being Fired Muscle Shoals Silence Her Veg Stock Old Songs Freakonomics Email about Soft Porn Subway Rejection Letter Tiger 13-Month-Old Baby Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Evan Parker and Prince Hamlet Assholiness Brain: Who’s in Charge Here? Lubicon Mulroney Prepared Listening 5 Syllables Mod-A-Go-Go Stretch-A-Lastic Pants ttt Omar Don’t Know What You’re Doing Speed Fantasy Fans Watch Comedy Song Plugging Neil Young Often Every Time Kindness of Strangers Feel for Them Errol Morris The Yellers Guilty Feelings Unaligned Chakras Killer Outros Blips of Blips Wishing Me Happy New Year Dumb Things Some Singers Say Songwriters Hall of Fame Memory of a Great Man, Not Trump’s Best Part Hola Smile Short Film Do It, Jeff Banjo No Wine Before It’s Time Smiling Two Worlds I Believe When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever Insomniac Accidentally Acquired Beliefs Pals 3 Way Songs with Synths Autopilot Literature 5 Points Anhai Prove It Podcast Songs Imagine Harper Everyone Needs a Pimp More Banjo Stories One More Letter Recording Movements Earth Wants This For Every Action Waves Chasing Dorka Lists Perfectly What Passes for Thought Objectivity Accompanying Margaret Beethoven, Karma Stolen Beehive State Pool Exceptional 10 Regrets of 2017 Going Slow Kingston 1985 Animal Improvisers Chances Wake Up, Time to Die Vasili Arkhipov For Whom Is It Done The Applause for Whom Hearing Surprises Electricity Evil Plans Long-Time Listener Secret Target Astrology Your Cheating Heart Pressure Drop Cheap Thrills Recent Disappointments Why Improv Kikawa Buddy Rich, Patrick Brown Mickey Smith Changing Stations At the Rehearsal Tempo Boal Questionnaire Fail My Only Friend the End Solo Power Mr. Wonder Me to Me It’s My Nature Filter Hi How Y’all Doin? Geordie McDonald Hanson Knots Rip It Up Dark Games at U of M Freire A Good Day to Die 9 Surprises Recently Discussed at Dinner Falstaff Angry on Stage How I Won the Talent Show Pause Touring w Carmaig Cheating Publishing Old Neil Young Neil Hymie Swap Shop I’m So Sick and Tired Be Here Now Dark Horse Punt I Can Feel It Coming in the Air tonight Oh Lord Beatles Not So Secret Ghosts The 10th Victim Drawer Boy Voices in the Head George Only a F