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Arrows Of Attention: Musical Prompting
You’re a soloist who specializes in 19th-century Romantic music. You have no sheet music in front of you and don’t consider yourself an improviser, yet at your instrument you’re able to remember fragments of themes, chord progressions, and melodies from dozens of different composers whose works you’ve practiced and performed. Use this partial knowledge to… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ben Lerner’s “Transcription” (2026)
“these impossibly delicate things were the result of a thousand rapid choices and adjustments, movements of the hand” (20). “kept seeing the flowers as organic one instant and as artificial the next, a kind of duck–rabbit effect, not between things the object might represent, but between nature and culture, the given and the constructed” (20).… Continue reading
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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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