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Gongscapes
Gongscapes is the ten-year echo of my 2016 recording, Gong Music. Each of its sixteen tracks has three gong parts, arranged left-center-right along the stereo field. Gong parts were recorded as melodies, then re-sampled, pitched into a lower (more oceanic) register, and step sequenced so fragments of the parts resound once each time around a… Continue reading
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Database: Annea Lockwood On Listening As Meditation
“If you’re focusing your attention so strongly on listening, it’s a form of meditation. Which is so nourishing.” Annea Lockwood database (a cache of perceptions) Continue reading
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Techniques: Juxtaposition
There are two techniques of composing I use that generate very different results. The first is the goes along with technique. The idea here is build one part then build a second part by playing along with the first. Then play a third part along with parts 1 and 2, and so on, one layer at a… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Riccardo Falcinelli’s “Chromorama: How Colour Has Changed Our Way of Seeing” (2025)
“Conventions change to reflect wider changes in the culture, but what is worth underlining here is how the ideas that we have about things have always been constructed starting from the concrete uses of the things themselves” (104). “This is how our collective imagination is constructed: an idea appears, takes shape, is liked, begins to… Continue reading
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Database: Tetsu Inoue On Unexpected Rhythms And Avoiding Obvious Sounding Beats
“I try to avoid doing beats which are very obvious sounding. In fact, I strictly avoid 808 and 909 drum sounds altogether, because everybody is using them. I use synthesizers to generate drum noises and sample them. I find that more interesting. It’s essentially the same thing, but more interesting.” “When I bought a DAT… Continue reading
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