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Resonant Thoughts: Geoff Dyer’s “The Ongoing Moment” (2005)
“[Photographer] Dorothea Lange also believed that ‘to know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting.’ As far as she was concerned it was fine for a photographer to work ‘completely without plan’ and just photograph ‘that to which he instinctively responds’. Taking Lange… Continue reading
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Arrows of Attention: Composing as Practicing
Patience. Little is likely to happen in the first five minutes. Give the moment a chance to expand, a chance to unfold something. Building from the ground up. What do the materials, the techniques, and the day suggest? Follow that. Nailing it in one take. A take forces you to pay attention. One take demands… Continue reading
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Same Walk, Different Music
“The tune is space. The blue guitar Becomes the place of things as they are,A composing of senses of the guitar.” Wallace Stevens, “The Man with the Blue Guitar” (1937) Same Walk, Different Music: Arovane, “Deauville.” In the quest of searching for ever new music, always listening for something unusual, a useful reset is returning… Continue reading
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Database: Arovane On Decisive Sources Of Good Musical Ideas
(Photo: F.W. Stubbs) “It’s pretty important to focus on a few instruments and know them inside out. Often it is the process and the workflow that are decisive for good musical ideas.” Uwe Zahn (aka Arovane) database Continue reading
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Musical Ideas
The composer John Cage once said that the problem with improvising is that musicians only play what they know and therefore “don’t arrive at any revelation that they’re unaware of.” But improvising always reveals what the musician was unaware of; in fact, that’s its power. We want to hear the surprises that fleetingly illuminate, like… Continue reading
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