Hello. Wel­come to my blog. As you’ve no doubt noticed, it is about a sub­ject very dear to me: Music. From an early age I have been enrap­tured with music. As a child I would often sit with the portable record player,  lis­ten­ing to the hand­ful of children’s albums we had for hours on end. I would sing into a cheap getto-blaster through a cheaper micro­phone, record­ing onto tape such dit­ties as: You Are My Sun­shine, and Down By the Bay.

Music is my pas­sion. It is a pas­sion that was thank­fully noticed and fed by my par­ents. I have been play­ing one instru­ment or another since I was five. My father, with his gar­gan­tuan library of records and tapes made sure that I my edu­ca­tion was well rounded.

As a par­ent now, I see my own son’s joy in singing and being allowed to play with the ‘tars, as he calls them. I look for­ward to teach­ing him to play. I can’t wait  to share with him the fine world of music that is about us, just as I share the world of music with you, dear reader.

This blog may seem to jump around a bit. Some­times I’ll dis­course on music the­ory, some­times I’ll point out cool things peo­ple are doing in the music world. I do have some con­sis­tent inter­ests that will keep com­ing up. Hand-in-hand with my love of music, is my lust for tech­nol­ogy. I don’t mean just high-tech, but low-tech as well.  Whether it be a com­plex meld­ing of cir­cuits and soft­ware, or carved wood and catgut strings; the phys­i­cal means by which music is pro­duced is a sub­ject that tick­les my fancy. Just as impor­tant are the new things that peo­ple do to advance the art and sci­ence of music.

With a sub­ject so vast, intri­cate, and chang­ing I doubt I’ll run out of top­ics to post on.  I hope that you will enjoy explor­ing music as much as I do, and that this blog will serve as good travel guide.

Sin­cerely,

Stephen Per­ra­ton

If you would like to get a hold of me, write to:
oneover­phi AT euphoni­cre­marks DOT com