User:Ryouanji

I'd prefer to spend my time in Kyoto sitting on the veranda contemplating the composition of rocks, gravel and oil-stained walls at Ryouanji, but unfortunately I'm located in the middle of the U.S.

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp / Or what's a heaven for" (Robert Browning).

Most days I go to work as a music theorist, a job that I see as a collaboration with students and colleagues to develop our capacity to articulate and enrich our musical experiences. Writers on music that continue to intrigue me include Heinrich Schenker, Benjamin Boretz, David Lewin, Peter Westergaard, Milton Babbitt, J.K. Randall and a handful of contemporary writers who are as creative, ontologically and phenomenologically, as these.