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...Hamilton describes the Hoboken, New Jersey music scene where Tiny Lights originated to be “a really good scene for us” because it was a vibrant musical community that was open to new styles...
Tiny Lights shows would generally open with free musical improvisation—an atypical opening for a group classified as a rock band. “We tried to keep it as open as possible,” Hamilton says of the Tiny Lights signature improvisational rock style. “We took a lot of risks...
...Hamilton met his fellow band member and current wife Donna Croughn when they were music-loving teens attending different high schools in New Jersey. The two started a band together and eventually joined up with three other musicians to form Tiny Lights, with Hamilton on guitar and Croughn on vocals and electric violin...
After twelve years of touring, the members of Tiny Lights went their separate ways, in a break-up that Hamilton says went “quietly and peacefully”. At the time, Hamilton was living in Germany and beginning work on his doctoral dissertation, and he and Croughn had just had their first child. They did not have as much time to devote to touring and recording with the band...
...Hamilton, of course, is now part of the Harvard Faculty, teaching courses such as Literature 112, “Egypt in the European Imaginary”, Comparative Literature 135, “Literature and the Visual Arts: Iconophilia and Iconoclasm,” and the sophomore tutorial for Literature concentrators. Next year he will teach the Comparative Literature course “Melopoeia: On German Music and Letters”, which will examine German literature and philosophy as well as music, familiar ground in Hamilton’s personal life. “Now I’m a legitimate...