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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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Same Walk, Different Music: Actress, Suzanne Ciani, “Concrète Waves London B2” (2026).
Same Walk, Different Music. Actress, Suzanne Ciani, Concrète Waves London B2 (2026). I’m always looking for music that merits obsessive listening, but I rarely find it. There’s a lot of good music, some excellent music, but little I want to return to. This raises the question, What is it in music that keeps us listening?… Continue reading
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The Real, The Virtual, and Thinking Compositionally
Max Ernst, Saint Cecilia (Invisible Piano) (1923) For many electronic music producers, composing is characterized by a tension between what feels real and what feels virtual. I divide my time between playing parts on MIDI keyboard controllers and exploring the possibilities of the digital. Software is exciting because it does so many things. I use… Continue reading
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Art About Music: “When Is That Young Man Going Home?” (1931)
“When Is That Young Man Going Home?” (Centralia Daily Chronicle, 24 August, 1931 ) Continue reading
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