June 2015
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I’ve just discovered that I have never listened
Until very, very recently I understood the art of listening to be a passive, almost reflex action. Something we don’t have to think about, something that occurs naturally just like looking or feeling. I didn’t expect to have to keep a specific awareness of the sounds and messages around me- I expected them to come…
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Why poetry is the music in words and my obsession with half rhyme
Am I embarrassing you? I’m in Paris with you. I don’t know why the sounds of half rhyme excite me so much. My favourite poems appear to be those that follow no set pattern and adopt a more imperfect tone and rhyme scheme. Perhaps it’s the predictability of perfect rhyme that loses my attention- I…
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Because I know I’ve changed and that’s what matters
In a musicians life, it’s surprisingly easy for your life to turn on its head and in 6 months. You are faced with a different person with changed aspirations and views on life. That is a short description of the past 6 months for me. From mid January I have sustained an ambiguous music-related, RSI…
Hattie Butterworth 