preoccupations with memory and expectation.

An author I keep returning to, Alan Watts always makes me stop to think.

A friend responded: I think that when we are playing music we can alter the importance of the looming past and the ensuing matters that will happen in the future--we can make them happen because it is our business to direct where and how the next note will sound. Musical moments are successions of "now" that are living in harmonic rhythmic environments that celebrate, energize, and animate "nowness."

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