Tag Archives: Jake Brunner

We often speak of sep­a­rat­ing the artist from the work. There’s always a small con­tin­gent of peo­ple who ignore Ezra Pound’s poetry on the grounds that he was a fas­cist and anti-semite. Many more peo­ple, how­ever, approach those poems with … Con­tinue read­ing →

My friend and musi­cal com­pan­ion Jeremy once gave me this advice when I told him I was hav­ing trou­ble writ­ing songs: “Start with a philo­soph­i­cal con­cept and try to make the sound describe that con­cept.” It was an inter­est­ing, if … Con­tinue read­ing →

If I learned any­thing as an Anthro­pol­ogy major in col­lege, it’s that when we speak of “human nature” we’re almost always talk­ing about cul­ture. Count­less ideas and insti­tu­tions deemed nat­ural for the human spirit are in fact part of a … Con­tinue read­ing →

The world of sound is a strange one, indeed. Think about it. We pay money to watch peo­ple make sounds. If peo­ple make really cool sounds, we pay more money. I’ve heard peo­ple make some pretty cool sounds in my … Con­tinue read­ing →