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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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Database: Loraine James On Balancing Melody and Drums
“A lot of the time in my stuff is the juxtaposition of crazy drums and the melody is more simple—just to balance out both. I like to have a warm, simple melody and the drums are doing whatever they want to do.” Loraine James database (a cache of perceptions) Continue reading
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Music’s Complex Problem
Édouard Vuillard, Morning Concert (1937-38) Why do we turn to music when there are so many other artistic, physical, social, trivial, and spiritual pursuits claiming our attention? One reason is that music is a multimodal experience that is already meaningfully integrated into our lives. Music is everywhere as a tacit shared language, a perpetual underscore… Continue reading
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