Subscribe to the Current Dissonance newsletter at currentdissonance.com ABOUT CURRENT DISSONANCE Current Dissonance takes current events out of our eyes and into our ears. Whenever I can, I compose and record a new piece of music in reaction to a headline in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Asahi Shimbun, The Times of India, The Australian, or other news outlets from around the world, and share it with you via this newsletter. It gives me peace and clarity to do this—and I hope it can bring the same for you. Many thanks for reading, listening, and sharing the noise, Michael Gallant https://CurrentDissonance.Substack.com #solopiano #improvisation #pianoimprovisation ---- Noise #201 by Michael Gallant. Written and recorded for Current Dissonance (currentdissonance.com). Copyright 2025 Gallant Music LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Subscribe to the Current Dissonance newsletter at currentdissonance.com ABOUT CURRENT DISSONANCE Current Dissonance takes current events out of our eyes and into our ears. Whenever I can, I compose and record a new piece of music in reaction to a headline in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Asahi Shimbun, The Times of India, The Australian, or other news outlets from around the world, and share it with you via this newsletter. It gives me peace and clarity to do this—and I hope it can bring the same for you. Many thanks for reading, listening, and sharing the noise, Michael Gallant https://CurrentDissonance.Substack.com #solopiano #improvisation #pianoimprovisation ---- Noise #200 by Michael Gallant. Written and recorded for Current Dissonance (currentdissonance.com). Copyright 2025 Gallant Music LLC. All Rights Reserved.

After three months of Current Dissonance silence, I’m thrilled to be back with a new Noise. Thanks so much for being here. I recorded Noise #199 as a reaction to the murky storytelling around America’s bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities—specifically how obliterated (or not) the program has become. Running through my head as I recorded the music was a recurring downward arc, like bombs dropping through cloud and air and earth—or like political mouths racing to the rhetorical bottom as they try to carve their chosen narrative into the face of public consciousness. There’s a lot of swirling energy and dark dissonance in the music, but also glimmers of harmonic brightness and hope—because the true aftermath remains undefined. I’d love to hear *your* reactions to *my* musical reactions to current events, so please don’t hesitate to leave a comment. And I’d be honored for you to share the music if it moves you: Subscribe to the Current Dissonance newsletter at currentdissonance.com ABOUT CURRENT DISSONANCE Current Dissonance takes current events out of our eyes and into our ears. Whenever I can, I compose and record a new piece of music in reaction to a headline in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Asahi Shimbun, The Times of India, The Australian, or other news outlets from around the world, and share it with you via this newsletter. It gives me peace and clarity to do this—and I hope it can bring the same for you. Many thanks for reading, listening, and sharing the noise, Michael Gallant https://CurrentDissonance.Substack.com #solopiano #improvisation #pianoimprovisation ---- Noise #199 by Michael Gallant. Written and recorded for Current Dissonance (currentdissonance.com). Copyright 2025 Gallant Music LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Original music by Michael Gallant reacting to the leak of secret American military plans via Signal. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/signal-cybersecurity-trump-war-planning-00246881 This is a video from the Current Dissonance newsletter. Subscribe for free at currentdissonance.com ABOUT CURRENT DISSONANCE Current Dissonance takes current events out of our eyes and into our ears. Every few days, I improvise a new piece of music in reaction to a headline in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Asahi Shimbun, The Times of India, The Australian, or other news outlets from around the world, and share it with you via this newsletter. It gives me peace and clarity to do this—and I hope it can bring the same for you. Many thanks for reading, listening, and sharing the noise, Michael Gallant https://CurrentDissonance.Substack.com #solopiano #improvisation #pianoimprovisation ---- Noise #198 by Michael Gallant. Written and recorded for Current Dissonance (https://currentdissonance.substack.com). Copyright 2025 Gallant Music LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Original music by Michael Gallant reacting to the stunned silence of many Americans, and a path towards reanimation. https://www.currentdissonance.com/p/noise-197-paralyzed-by-a-paper-tiger This is a video from the Current Dissonance newsletter. Subscribe for free at currentdissonance.com ABOUT CURRENT DISSONANCE Current Dissonance takes current events out of our eyes and into our ears. Every few days, I improvise a new piece of music in reaction to a headline in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Asahi Shimbun, The Times of India, The Australian, or other news outlets from around the world, and share it with you via this newsletter. It gives me peace and clarity to do this—and I hope it can bring the same for you. Many thanks for reading, listening, and sharing the noise, Michael Gallant https://CurrentDissonance.Substack.com #solopiano #improvisation #pianoimprovisation ---- Noise #197 by Michael Gallant. Improvised and recorded for Current Dissonance (https://currentdissonance.substack.com). Copyright 2025 Gallant Music LLC. All Rights Reserved.