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UNCOMMON MEASURE
A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
"Every piece of music has a time of its own, one that the musician needs to enter in order to perform it. It's a matter not only of time signature and beat, but of how you feel time pass within the music: Two pieces in 4/4 time may have completely different temporalities depending on the subdivisions of the beat, the flexibility of the tempo, and, above all, the music's character. Time may unfurl slowly in one and race by in another. To perform any piece, then, is to immerse yourself in its time.
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time?
Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance anxiety forced her to give up the dream of becoming a concert solo violinist. Anchoring her story in illuminating research in neuroscience and quantum physics, Hodges traces her own passage through difficult family dynamics, prejudice, and enormous personal expectations to come to terms with the meaning of a life reimagined?one still shaped by classical music but moving toward the freedom of improvisation.
Natalie Hodges has performed as a classical violinist throughout the United States, Paris, and the Italian Piedmont region as well as at the Aspen Music Festival and the Stowe Tango Music Festival. She studied English and music at Harvard University and is pursuing an MFA at Emerson College in Boston
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time?
Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance anxiety forced her to give up the dream of becoming a concert solo violinist. Anchoring her story in illuminating research in neuroscience and quantum physics, Hodges traces her own passage through difficult family dynamics, prejudice, and enormous personal expectations to come to terms with the meaning of a life reimagined?one still shaped by classical music but moving toward the freedom of improvisation.
Natalie Hodges has performed as a classical violinist throughout the United States, Paris, and the Italian Piedmont region as well as at the Aspen Music Festival and the Stowe Tango Music Festival. She studied English and music at Harvard University and is pursuing an MFA at Emerson College in Boston
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Published 2021-03-01 by Bellevue Literary Press |