Week 6, 2/11

Most of the work I did last week was on the fiction part of the book. It’s coming together to sync up with the music study in a very exciting way.

CDs continue to trickle in, and private emails from musicians. I’ll probably do a taped interview with Randy Raine-Reusch and Mei Han when they’re both in Portland in a couple of weeks, then transcribe it and put it up on the site. Vijay and Rudresh will probably get back to me around then too. I expect on-site interactions to start up again as soon as I have some full interview threads in place.

I’m not sure why, after an initial burst of enthusiastic responses, nothing at all happened over the next weeks. I’m content to let that be; can’t see myself worrying about it, or trying to stimulate it. Even if it continues to be so, the work I’m doing goes on as usual, and will bear its fruit as usual. Still, I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t gradually resume when it should. I can only deal with one or two musicians a week, and I don’t think I’ll be communicating with colleagues more until I’ve gone through all the musicians first.

This next week Min Xiao-Fen and Wu Man will be the focus of my research and interview constructions...