Research
The Pursuit of the Old Sound: Harnessing the UV Spectrum to Age and Harden Varnish
One of the persistent questions in violin and guitar making is how to approximate the condition of an instrument that has lived for centuries. Beyond the wood itself, the varnish...
Heredity, Humanism and Violin Making
Among the varied wonders of hyperconnected tele-society, none has proven so enigmatic as the controversial social media post. So vexing was my recent experience of this kind that...
Orality, Writing, and the Fate of Musical Vitality
1. The Oral Roots of Musical Life Before notation became the axis of European musical culture, music lived primarily as an oral, embodied, and communal practice. Medieval and Renaissance practice: chant, folk...
Protein Folding, Creative Evolution, and the Future of the Violin
Protein Folding, Creative Evolution, and the Future of the Violin For more than two centuries, the violin has been both the most cherished and the most paradoxically frozen instrument in...