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Database: Wolfgang Voigt On Sampling’s Magic Momentum
“I like a certain music, I throw it in my sampler, I modulate it, transform it, deform it, and so on. But I only use particular material as a starting point because I want its specific sonic world to appear in my music. I want there to be a connection but, ideally, I don’t want… Continue reading
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A Microphone’s Hearing, A Musician’s Listening
“I will always remember that circular movement of my photography director’s hand, and now I know that what we miss in every digital device, and more in general in the digital world, is that breathing, that waviness, that irregularity. Like a vibration. Was that vibration what we used to call a soul? It’s hard to… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Morley’s “A Sound Mind: How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite Its Entire History)” (2020)
“Do we lose that sense of the greater purpose of music – once it is set inside the flat, if relentless and very helpful, music services – as this other language, this alien presence taking on the unknown, defending us against all kinds of threats, danger and tension? Will this near-monstrous availability of music, the… Continue reading
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Database: Ital Tek on Music In a 3D Plane
“I like to think of music in kind of like a 3D plane, like a shape…I do try and pay particular attention to making everything balance and creating little bits of ear candy and texture and thinking of it like your frequencies are kind of in a visual plane.” Ital Tek Continue reading
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Music Without A Body
In Times Square the guys hawking their hip hop CDs and the guys hawking their fake Buddhist bracelets are of a piece, both unaware that art, as a commodity, has no value. But the hawkers know something about symbolic value and that the way of imbuing their wares with magic is through their person. The… Continue reading
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