From this page you can reach a number of texts dealing with various topics in music and culture.
Over the years in which my musical outlook has developed, I have also continually pursued conceptual ideas. I have tried to sum up some of these ideas in the texts presented here. You don’t need to know them to understand and enjoy my music. But I see the texts as an invitation to think afresh about music, and to a discussion of musical concepts, which I would welcome.
Since I have already come across some of my texts on other websites, I have written down a few rules on copyright and the use of these texts for anyone who would like to quote or reproduce something from this site, and I ask you to observe them.
- Wayne Shorter: His Compositions and Improvisations in the 1960s
(PDF of the diploma thesis of 7 September 1989)
- Jazz as an Encounter between African and European Musical Traditions 2000
- Composition and Improvisation 2000
- Jazz Musicians and Their Audience 2000
- Music and Its Places 2008
Which music comes into being in which places?
- Groundhog Day? 2006
Some thoughts on the repeatability of music
- The Sense of Time in Jazz 2000
- Musical cultures spread like weeds … 2004
- How does music work in society? 2002
- A Refused Encounter: A Critique of “New Music” 2008
- “God loves black sound”
Four essays on the relationship between jazz and the Christian tradition of faith
- Body, Soul and Spirit
Jazz Improvisation, the Human Person and Our Relationship with God
- Franciscan Writings
Information and reflections on Franciscan theology and spirituality and on the Franciscan family of orders.
