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  • I realise this is a tongue-in-cheek title but for anyone unaware, sheet music is a very clinical and skeletal approximation of music. Like the difference between reading I Have a Dream and actually hearing MLK deliver the speech. It’s why you can have 1,000 different recordings of a Mozart piano concerto – and why they’re all superior to a PC playing a MIDI file (most accurate representation of sheet music).

    Having said that, and despite sheet music being about as far from ‘lossless’ as a stickman drawing, musicians are particularly good at ‘visualising’ music. So much so, that a brain scan can’t distinguish between a musician actually listening to music and a musician merely replaying music in their head.






  • You’ve probably heard of it, but do yourself a favour and read Rick Reilly’s Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump – (Hachette Books, 2019)

    I know little and care less about golf but this book was gripping! Reilly is a great writer and, despite my having read several other books on Trump (Mary Trump, Michael Wolff, etc), I really think Reilly’s explains Trumps method of operation better than every other attempt.

    It’s absolutely shocking what he does in his day to day life. The anecdotes are piled high, the double dealing and fabrications are outrageous. Every single page contains some revelation even more odious than the previous.

    A morbid fascination and dogged curiosity regarding the depths of Trump’s moral abyss will keep you tutting and eye-rolling to the end.

    (Sounds like a sales pitch, I know. But I casually picked it up in a thrift shop for €1. No regrets!)