for all Intents and Purposes:

for all Intents and Purposes:

5 March 201912 January 2022Jerome Jarvis40

I am nothing more than an echo and reflection of the beauty and wisdom that I have encountered during the passage of some very interesting years. It has been my good fortune to have met so many inspiring artists and teachers, shining manifestations of goodness, to whom I shall be eternally grateful. My life’s journey […]

What the Heck is Music?

2 January 20212 January 2021Jerome Jarvis1

THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC (WITH RESPECT TO PHYSICS, PSYCHOLOGY AND SPIRIT) By Jerome Jarvis “Melody is the Mother, Rhythm is the Father” (ancient Sanskrit mahavaakya) Where does Music come from? Indeed, what is it? How can a series of compression waves moving through the atmosphere and into an auditory canal designed to receive, encode […]

Closing Comments

14 December 202014 December 2020Jerome Jarvis

No, I’m not shutting down the website; but I am completely overwhelmed by the responses I’ve received in the “comments” section here. And I DO mean Overwhelmed! Over the past 2 years my site has been slowly gathering users, and your comments have been most welcome (if sometimes incomprehensible). So I truly appreciate the largely […]

Between the Ears and Hips

9 November 20209 November 2020Jerome Jarvis

What a brilliant year of adaptations, acceptances and surrenders its been for me (so far)! I thought to add an update to that very personal post about my hearing/balance issues. I am still dealing with the birds and hums and buzzes in my head; but, incredibly, my vertigo and imbalance has been resolved, and it […]

Attention Please

10 May 202010 May 2020Jerome Jarvis9

Have you ever noticed that you can control the focus of your vision? it probably happens without you being consciously aware; but the lens in your eye deforms to adjust the near or far focus, from fine-grained detail to the wide vista of the whole visual field. But watch – it is your choice whether […]

Between the Ears

17 April 202017 April 2020Jerome Jarvis6

I’ve had hearing trouble since 1990. Up until then my sense of hearing was quite acute, having been accustomed to listening deeply to all sorts of music on all types of systems. So it was a shock one afternoon to suddenly hear a high-pitched whistling noise in my left ear. More shocking still was the […]

The Hidden Costs of Mobility

11 November 201911 November 2019Jerome Jarvis13

Reading Neil Young’s entertaining memoir “Special Deluxe” into which he has poured many exhaustive details of his extensive automobile collection; and a car-by-car history of his life on the road. Sometimes he mentions an album or concert as well. Its a fascinating, if unorthodox, rock and roll auto biography. Along the way through this story, […]

A Lifetime in Music

13 March 201913 March 2019Jerome Jarvis14

I’ve always been drawn in by music and poetry – at some point in my childhood I realized I could put the two together and make up new words for familiar melodies, or take poems and find ways to sing them, or even make up my own songs from scratch. Edgar A. Poe was one […]