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Happiness Project: I’ve been noticing over the last year or so what seems to be movement afoot of people who are bringing music to storytelling in new ways. I tend to find it as I’m perusing WMBR’s stacks prepping for my radio show, and maybe you’re on to it, too.  I’m loving these new approaches and thought I’d share/attach the latest, Charles Spearin’s “Happiness Project,” which is a collection of some of his Toronto neighbors who frequent his front porch in the summertime.  He says, “I wanted to see if I could blur the line between speaking and singing and write music based on these “accidental melodies.”

Arriving is Leaving Again is a moment of spontaneity on a familiar theme captured In the Margin.

Between Here and Gone is a 15:42 audio essay produced to accompany an application to the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship program. I pulled this out the other night for a listening session, and am posting it here for your listening pleasure.

In the Margin of the Other. I’ve produced about 1600 hours of live, free-form radio on WMBR-FM (community/student radio station at MIT) over the last 19 years. Here’s a sample 90-minute show from May 2, 2007….John Cage to Chavela Vargas to to King Crimson to Miles Davis to Lord Buckley to Mice People, Ann Azema, Caroline Bergvall and, hopefully, some magic in between.