Word: instrumentalization
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Tribute albums are often content with summoning up old ghosts. Saxophonist , 31, takes a more rewarding approach on his excellent new CD: he offers up fresh takes on the music of French Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, but he does so by substituting his own instrument in the lead role. Carter, whether he's playing tenor or soprano sax, shows off a sweet, sinuous tone; when he reinterprets Reinhardt's classic Nuages with a bass sax, the muscular sound is distancing at first, but then it wraps itself around the listener like an anaconda. This CD does more than invoke Reinhardt...
...comes in several flavors and people willingly engage in colonic irrigation to get all the nasties out of their large intestines--and where otherwise smart folk habitually ignore all warnings and put Q-Tips too far into their ears. But apparently Q-Tips aren't quite enough. The newest instrument for getting the muck out of that pesky ear canal is a lighted candle...
...days before meeting Jovon Lee, our tutee, we divided our time between picking out which dorm he'd live in his freshman year at Stanford and determining which wind instrument he should play. At our first session, we spent most of the time telling our life stories and how they had led us to become paragons of selfless giving. Then we let him know just how cool we were. Eventually, I found myself saying things like, "I did some of the rap singing myself in seventh grade. I called myself the Rap King...
Jovon, though smart, clever and exceedingly charming when explaining how he was framed for the wet-toilet-paper fight in the bathroom, didn't seem so psyched on Stanford despite our admittedly exaggerated description of seminars on video games. And the instrument thing, partly owing to some oboe trash talking on my part, wasn't going anywhere. There were nights when I dreamed of switching him with Elian, but that may have been more about my freakish need for media attention...
...least, music can evidently trigger physical changes in the brain's wiring. By measuring faint magnetic fields emitted by the brains of professional musicians, a team led by Christo Pantev of the University of Muenster's Institute of Experimental Audiology in Germany has shown that intensive practice of an instrument leads to discernible enlargement of parts of the cerebral cortex, the layer of gray matter most closely associated with higher brain function...