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Same Walk, Different Music
“The tune is space. The blue guitar Becomes the place of things as they are,A composing of senses of the guitar.” Wallace Stevens, “The Man with the Blue Guitar” (1937) Same Walk, Different Music: Arovane, “Deauville.” In the quest of searching for ever new music, always listening for something unusual, a useful reset is returning… Continue reading
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Database: Arovane On Decisive Sources Of Good Musical Ideas
(Photo: F.W. Stubbs) “It’s pretty important to focus on a few instruments and know them inside out. Often it is the process and the workflow that are decisive for good musical ideas.” Uwe Zahn (aka Arovane) database Continue reading
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Musical Ideas
The composer John Cage once said that the problem with improvising is that musicians only play what they know and therefore “don’t arrive at any revelation that they’re unaware of.” But improvising always reveals what the musician was unaware of; in fact, that’s its power. We want to hear the surprises that fleetingly illuminate, like… Continue reading
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On Intuition and Technique
Wasily Kandinsky, Improvisation 35 (1914) Music production is a back-and-forth between two ways of organizing sound. The first way is intuitive, which means making by playing, improvising, trial and error, and following whatever sounds good. The intuitive is an example of what Daniel Kahneman called System 1 thinking, which is decision-making that’s fast and instinctive.… Continue reading
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