That time Newton’s rings saved a mouse

Think of the quintessential exuberant kitten. Then think of the quintessential timid mouse. How do you think the interaction between those two will look like? You are right. One will chase the other along the wall to a room inside a house. Unfortunately for the mouse, there is only one possibility for escape from that […]

A spoken jam session

Now, it is a funny thing. Free jazz, that is. The dissatisfaction with the limitations of ordinary music once upon a time — when Earth was still flat — led to a movement in which the oppressive conventions of harmonic tunes, such as the venerable connection of tonic, dominant and subdominant were torn down like […]