composing
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Composing and Scarcity
Does composing music happen at a precise moment? Is it when you have a concept for a piece? When a looping rhythm comes alive? When you alight on a chord progression that does something new? When a technology generates a beautiful error? When an improvisation opens up a world? Or when an orchestration of parts Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Errollyn Wallen’s “Becoming A Composer” (2023)
“Trick yourself or be forced into writing something very fast and you will see just how quickly you become an animal. All nerve endings and responses, ears on wire stalks.You know it all already.” “Intuition is an awareness of patterns, above and below the surface, seen and unseen, heard and unheard. For me, the act Continue reading
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Notes On Unknowns And Conditions For Musical Flourishing
unknown—unrevealed, uncertain, unsettled, undecided “I’ve come to think that attention is the most important thing in a studio situation.” – Brian Eno Sometime last year I was listening to an almost finished track and heard a sound I couldn’t recall making, a sound I couldn’t figure out in retrospect how it came about. Some quality Continue reading
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Losing Objectivity
I had worked on the track for a year, which was far longer than I had ever worked on a ten-minute piece of music. In my defense, things take time: it had taken time to decide on sounds, time to get going and wonder where I was going, time to record chord progressions, beats, and Continue reading
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Wont’s And Wills: Notes On Composing
You will have to chose right now, right this very moment. You won’t go back. You won’t judge it positively or negatively. You won’t wonder, What if I had done something else? You won’t worry how it relates to anything. You won’t worry that it sounds too simple or too complicated. You won’t speculate on Continue reading
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