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Displaying the Work of Musician Henry Henderson

I aim to pursue this long-term mission: to demonstrate the necessity for evidence-based reasoning, via the musical paradigm. Writ in its elegant design exists a fundamental coherence. Its determinism and closure exemplify that of our natural world and it becomes a philosophical archetype for evaluating belief systems and other constructs.

My approach to listening, performing, composing, and researching manifests this scientific worldview. By familiarizing myself with a tendency, hypothesizing a description, and applying a model to form accurate predictions—, theory emerges. I therefore care about usefulness over truth; and the study of syntax allows me to glean wide-reaching musical conceptions. Analysis inspires.

Here are some ponderings that will give an idea of my interests (choose thumbnail, click image):