ML Hart's journal of observations, obsessions and inspirations
I’ve been working like crazy on the book, have been for a couple months. It’s a little manic. Mostly it’s wrangling the research and trying to bring a bit of order to chaos, find a form I can access and pull it all into whatever is going to become The Book. In particular, the interviews …
Nearly 140 interviews into the tenor book, I’m wrestling with accuracy versus entertainment. Trying to wrangle all the material from binders full of transcripts and tapes yet to be transcribed. The art of transcription – typing up a verbatim record of the conversation – is hard. The hardest part, and I’m not kidding, is deciding …
Today: recovering from a particularly intense (and tense) week at work, intended to catch up on homework for my class. What did I actually do? Spent every moment I could find with my old friend, The Tenor Book: organized files, electronic and paper glanced at some of the work I’d done over the years, both …
The Tenor Book. During the last 14 years, this project has variously been my frustration, my focus or my inspiration. Sometimes all those at once. More than 100 interviews, 65,000+ miles of travel and hundreds of hours in, I’ve dealt with one derailment after another. ‘Life getting in the way’ I call it. I don’t …
