Cheers Dave - and thanks for the link to Ian's site. Interesting stuff.

Frank -

Re. writing about music - not sure I've posted anything meta as such. Will think and see if I remember anything. I'm coming from an academic background originally and I still think there's value in getting down to the nuts and bolts sometimes. You need to be able to substantiate what you're saying with some evidence from the sound itself. That said, what one has to do outside the academic sphere is find a halfway house of language/metaphor that is technically precise but not inaccessible to those without theory training.

Not easy ...!