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Database: Jennifer Loveless On The Quality Of First Takes
“Speed is really important to me in production, and I love taking the first take of things and making that work. There’s something in the first take that has a quality I can’t quite put my finger on, but it’s almost like you can hear the excitement of playing something for the first time. Maybe… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: C. Thi Nguyen, The Score (2026)
“The pursuit of fish creates an attentional focal point. It structures the way I look at the river—it gives me a goal, tells me what to look for, what to see” (29). “The real point is something larger, stranger, more mystical. You spend time on a river trying to catch fish, and you start noticing… Continue reading
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Curating One’s Work
Every artist is their own curator. One curates at the level of sounds and sentences, parts and paragraphs, textures and timbres, arrangements and structures, finished tracks and essays. To curate is to be continually making decisions about what to keep and what to jettison, what to edit and re-arrange and what to leave just as… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Martin Gayford’s “Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy” (2021)
“Each time I do a still life, I get very excited and realize that there are a thousand things here I can see! Which of them shall I choose? The more I look and think about it, the more I see. These simple little things are unbelievably rich. A lot of people have forgotten that.… Continue reading
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