Take a moment to think about a time when you attended a workshop and entered a room full of unfamiliar faces. What feelings did you experience? Anticipation, fear, maybe excitement. Rogers and Hammerstein’s famous song lyrics come to mind “Getting to know you, getting to feel free and easy. When I am with you, getting to know what to say.”
Last week my colleague Rachel Nicolosi and I started a Zoom gathering with music. As people entered the virtual space the sound of relief and surprise were audible. Some individuals even thanked us for the music in Chat and aloud. All this despite the fact we only...
Since working from home for more than a year, I’ve been listening to lots of music as I work, typically radio stations generated by some anonymous algorithm. After a few months, however, I was recognizing every song on my playlists of choice – it felt stale and...