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"During each session, which would last the better part of a day, Mettes would lie on the couch wearing an eye mask and listening through headphones to a careful
by state 12y ago
"During each session, which would last the better part of a day, Mettes would lie on the couch wearing an eye mask and listening through headphones to a carefully curated playlist—Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Pat Metheny, Ravi Shankar."
This strikes me as sort of funny. For someone completely unfamiliar with this stuff I would imagine encountering it to be pretty trippy on its own.
- notmarkus 12y agoI imagined this as, "There's no music here. These are just notes." 45 minutes later -- "Oh."
- andrey-p 12y agoSome time ago I listened to a radio documentary on Steve Reich. One bit I remember quite well was a description of the door to the room where musicians were practising for Music For 18 Musicians. Apparently it had a sign warning people to stay away from that room if they had a history of mental illness.