One person decided to face the audience, to try and make him stammer more. This was stammering as music. 

French composer Edgard Varese famously defined music simply as “organised sound”. I wonder if he would have seen stammering as music. It has all the basic elements: loudness, pitch, rhythm, tempo and reverb. Stammering as music, what do you think? Ridiculous idea or rebellious flavour? 

Miles Davis, the famous jazz trumpeter, described his improvisational technique in parallel to the way Picasso used a canvas. He said the most critical aspects of his work were not the objects themselves - the notes. Instead it was the space between them, the “air” that he placed between notes that was most important.  This got me thinking about blocks. What happens when we speak if we think of blocks as “air”? How might that transform our understanding of them? Can they be both absence and potential, a capacity for expression revealed?

STAMMA August 2025 Workshop, Stammering as music because "there are no wrong notes, just better choices".

6 times world snooker champion Steve Davis playing mad tunes in the Boiler Room. Nothing more to say really.

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STAMMA August 2025 Workshop, Stammering as music because "there are no wrong notes, just better choices".

Josh Walker

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