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From the first time I heard “Nardis,” the Miles Davis song made famous by pianist Bill Evans I fixated on it and the odd sound of the Phyrgian musical mode. There’s something about Nardis that is sort of maudlin and unfolding and I listen to it a lot when I’m trying to figure something out. This is a great piece of writing about the history of the song and about Evans.
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The show I just wrapped was kind of conceptually overloaded, but it was useful as a kind of high-level survey of the stuff I’m wrangling right now, and the goal was to find new ways to connect the tile art I’ve been doing, which is of the Dungeon Mode, to dungeons-as-mines, which was an underdeveloped chunk of my thesis writing that just kept blowing up as I would find more and more readings and more weird kismets piled up in my life related to it.
