Thomas Brett
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Database: Moritz Von Oswald On Listening To Backgrounds
“Experimentation, exploring, sound, and listening. To listen to backgrounds. You should always be listening to what is in the background, of whatever it is…I’m trying to round up the capacity of what the ear can perceive.” Moritz Von Oswald database Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Amit Chaudhuri’s “Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music” (2021)
“Riyaaz is the most secret part of yourself – the time you share with no one. You’re listening to yourself: you’re imperfect, as works-in-progress are. You’re self-absorbed, like a bird, and, like a bird, vulnerable to the danger of being discovered. Being interrupted is akin to a bird’s aloneness being shattered by movement. I’ve experienced… Continue reading
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Repetition Lessons
(Photo: Brett Jordan) “Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.” Soren Kierkegaard “We may find it not so interesting to cook the same thing over and over again every day. It is rather tedious, you may say. If you lose the spirit of repetition it will become quite difficult…Anyway, we cannot keep still:… Continue reading
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Keywords: Ear Candy
(Photo: Matt Seymour) The sweet metaphor is not accidental: ear candy are little sounds added in and around a track to sweeten its listening experience, brief explosions of interestingness that bring sparkle, razzmatazz, magic affect and energetic pop to music’s edges. Ear candy are details finessed, differences that make a difference, light in praise of… Continue reading
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Database: Stars Of The Lid On Sampling Parts To Make New Instruments
“Most of the ‘strange noises’ are just guitars, strings and horns recorded in different ways. I have a tendency to record a bunch and then just sample parts of what I’ve done. It’s all about laying instruments and making new instruments out of the combination of different instruments’ decay and timbre. But the important part… Continue reading
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Perception Lessons
(Photo: Mathilda Khoo) “You see, if you live by perception, as all artists must, then you sometimes have to wait for a long time for your mind to tell you the next step to take.” Agnes Martin “Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.” Alva Noe… Continue reading
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Same Walk, Different Music
Tipper, “Dreamsters” (2014). David Tipper is the best kind of artist—someone not easily pigeonholed, and someone whose work creates a unique aesthetic world. Such artists are rare in our time–Right?–when so many producer-composers sound similar to one another. But Tipper ins’t worried about fitting in. He’s an outsider about whom little is known. I like… Continue reading
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Database: Guillaume Bonneau On Preserving The Real Acoustic Behavior Of An Instrument
“The goal with those kind of new resonators or amplifiers is to keep the real acoustic behavior of an instrument. Because it resonates through wood or metal, and then you can capture it with different kind of mics, you have a very huge stereo image. It’s like being in front of someone playing the guitar,… Continue reading
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