New podcast episode on McCoy Tyner and the fourths chord

Making my first podcast episode really lit a fire under me, so I quickly produced a second one, about quartal harmony in jazz, classical and film music. The Fourths Chord by Ethan Hein The sound that connects McCoy Tyner, Erik Satie, Miles Davis and Star Trek Read on Substack

Halo is a giant mashup

My taste in video games mostly runs to the cartoony Japanese stuff: Mario, Zelda, Katamari. But I had access to an Xbox and a copy of Halo for a while, and I couldn’t rest until I finished it. I walked around thinking about it whenever I wasn’t playing. Every aspect of it was familiar, except …