In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Is the medium the message?

Marc | January 26, 2010

The Medium is the Massage (no, that isn’t a spelling error), is the name of a rather famous work produced by Marshall McLuhan and Quenten Fiore in 1967.  It is, in many ways, a popularizing, as well as exemplar, version of McLuhan’s  major research focus on how media influences messages or, in it’s better known [...]

London and Paris

Marc | June 15, 2009

What can I say about St. Paul”s and/or Notre Dame?  Well, for one thing, apparently we have been invited back again.  More importantly, they are truly amazing places to sing in.  Both are centres of their respective traditions and, even though I was raised in the tradition from St. Paul’s, I think I prefer Notre [...]

A focus on music

Marc | May 31, 2009

Right now, most of my attention and time is focused on music.  In particular, the Ottawa Bach Choir in which I sing 2nd Bass, is getting ready for our third European tour.  As with our two previous tours, we will be choir in residence at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig (Bach’s old church) and, let me [...]