Oct 13, 2020
Brian Krock is...
...a saxophone player. A self described “woodwind doubler” he
has devoted much of his career to playing multiple wind instruments
credibly.
...a bandleader and composer. His big band, Big Heart Machine is
one of the most innovative and exciting large ensembles today, and
his smaller band Liddle pushes the boundaries between composed and
improvised music in new directions.
...a YouTuber. His Scorestudy video series unpacks the mechanisms
and underlying processes informing his favorite composers, and
explores ideas about composition, process, nature, technique, and
history.
...a thoughtful guy. Here we consider the role of critical analysis
in music, the “unintended consequences of the capitalist nature of
music education,” what it means to improvise like a composer, how
reading James Joyce influenced his relationship to listening to and
writing music and led him to “create artwork that invites people to
put forth some effort,” why he loves “to be actively involved in
things that you're a beginner at,” his concerns about his “own
memory and the world’s ability to focus,” and what happened to him
after playing over 1000 performances of Dirty Dancing The
Musical.
www.third-story.com
www.patreon.com/thirdstorypodcast
www.briankrock.com