I noticed the sound while driving flipping through radio stations listening to new york’s hottest hip hop and r & b not from back then but from the edge of right now a soundtrack to the road’s present I keep pursuing over the horizon I noticed the hi hats chattering in double-time sixteenth and thirty-second… Continue reading

To know how a music works over time notice it aimed years later somewhere else and far away in a Target or Macy’s where the song has you under its fluorescence tingeing the silence as a woman sniffs diffusers comparing the feeling of lavender and matcha and Howard in returns (his ears are huge) takes… Continue reading

Envision a music that’s truly free— without a WIFI connection or social media access a device left to its own, off the grid of Sharing and Liking and intertextual Thumbs Up, attuned to relations and shapes within not without, listening through its silence. Continue reading

The repeating sequence has a fixed number of steps that return again and again a sixteen beat cycle, one measure of time downbeats—1, 5, 9, 13—on the kick backbeats—3, 7, 11, 15—on the snare offbeats—2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16—on the hats the groove locked tempo steady rhythms measured a repeating sequence… Continue reading

Music’s a synthesist connector of modules and patch cords running feelings through waveforms through filters echo-reverbs delays a musical system, a mix, an oscillating life. Continue reading

At 74th street station the Hare Krishna guys are making a din with harmonium cymbals voices and drums playing loose fitting rhythms to offer a question— Is music devotion or plain interruption? Continue reading

Think of a song as a mind-expander, a drug for losing yourself through its insistent propositions maybe that’s the thinking of the subway guitar guy who plays “Fast Car” each night choosing just the first bit that sounds like African kora looping around and around setting up what’s to come it’s so catchy but he never goes… Continue reading

Gould found music in geography fusing Bach with Canadian North cold weather counterpoint snow blanketed fugues solitary driving as three-part invention the self on wheels and radio hearing in seasons articulate matter. Continue reading