Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

Title: Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
Author: Hodges, Natalie
ISBN: 9781942658979
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 2022
Binding: Book
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

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A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becoming

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.