The Catholic Culture Podcast: Episode 33 – Structure and Freedom in Music and in Christ

March 27, 2019

The quest for structural freedom is fundamental to Catholic spiritual life (especially during this season of Lent). It is also the basis of improvising music. How can we become free and voluntary without giving way to the disorder and sin that leads to death? How can we be organized and disciplined without succumbing to the life and death of rigidity? Nevertheless, how can you create new music without a pre-determined composition? And how can you do this all without taking yourself seriously? Only the Holy Spirit makes these possible.

My friend Mark Christopher Brandt improves pianists, composers and spiritual writers, but spent his life pursuing these paradoxes at the confluence of life as a musician and the confluence of life in Christ. We’ll discuss his ongoing, fully improvised album, and more recently DVDs Structure and freedomhis meditation book for Cross and Rosary Station.

link

Mark’s website http://www.markchristopherbrandt.com

Structure and freedom DVD https://markchristopherbrandt.com/structure-and-freedom-dvd.html

Sunflowers and roses (To the soundtrack album) Structure and freedom))
https://markchristopherbrandt.com/sunflowers-and-roses-album.html

Mark’s spiritual book https://markchristopherbrandt.com/spiritual-books.html

2017 interviews about Mark’s album Nightingale

https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-0-migtingale-mark-christopher-brandt/