microthoughts
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On Passing Micro-Moments In Music
Sometimes in music there are brief moments that truly click, magnify your attention, and send you into a state of excitement. These moments can be anything—a chord progression, a melodic turn or leap, a sung phrase, a rhythm clash or synchrony, a combination of instruments, or even a single timbre. What makes them micro Continue reading
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Microthought: On Musical Means To Ends
There’s a man who walks the subway train each night asking for money by way of wayward singing of a song. “Fee-lings” he begins, nodding to that old standard but the riffs turn to his hunger: “I’m hun-gry” in a monotone, and then the proposed solution– “I like chi-cken” –exhaling a single harmonica tone. “I like Continue reading
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Microthought: On Harold Budd’s “Bandits Of Stature”
I listened to the composer’s music solitary while riding the subway– not multitasking, not otherwise occupied. And so the thought came to occupy me, unfolding in slow phrases: What do we value in music? What of its values occupy us? What aural codes do we enjoy resonating with? As I listened to the composer’s music Continue reading
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Microthought: On Musical Process
Music. Music finds a way around us. Music, that subliminal force, finds a way around us, through our ears, into our hearts. Your Music might not be my Music, that subliminal force that finds a way around us, through our ears, into our hearts. If we traded musics, you and I, do we trade minds Continue reading
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Microthought: On Multisensory Sounds
Stereo sirens, stumbling man spoke strange tongue, greased air, frying sounds. Continue reading
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On Microthoughts
Autumn by airport, hearing sounds of flight and roar, far away pleasure. Continue reading
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