because all responses to Matt Webb are really just pointers to Matt Webb

The obvious mental leap from the extended present is to ‘Vexations’, but it’s a different creature, counted out one bean at a time. (And I’m sure that enough has been written on Bach as an intensely Protestant musician, graphing the headspace of the listener in variation.)

There’s a meditation focused on the shape of one’s own breath, and a rarer one that seeks to discern the breath of others.