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What happens when rigorous musical structure refuses to become sound? What happens when rigorous musical structure refuses to become sound? A pianist’s practice notes on Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 9, exploring analysis, harmony, listening, and intuition.

A quiet return where change emerges not by force, but through time and inner movement.

Returning to the stage is not a return to who I was. It is a re-entry into uncertainty, attention, and embodied decision-making— where practice, performance, and identity are tested in real time.

What we call failure may simply be a matter of words. A quiet reflection on how language shapes the way we understand experience.

You have your art. It will hold you.

Freedom exists where nothing needs to be added.

A quiet beginning before change takes shape. s.

Black and white image of a pianist’s hands on the keyboard

True growth is often invisible while it is happening. Like stars in the daytime, it is already there, even when we cannot see it.