“You do it again and again, and you sense that the thing is beginning to have a form that looks strong. And all the time you’re thinking, and making decisions. The making, the devotion to making, is what gives it an emotional quality.” – Vija Clemins  • “What makes her images so alive is the… Continue reading

  “What do you pay when you pay attention? You pay with all the things you could have attended to, but didn’t, all the goals you didn’t pursue, all the actions you didn’t take, and all the possible yous you could have been, had you attended to those other things. Attention is paid in possible… Continue reading

  “Play with something ordinary and make it extraordinary. Don’t worry what you might be destroying; think about what you’re creating.” Erik Kessels, Failed It! (2016), p. 120 Continue reading

“What’s really interesting these days for me is people’s idea of sound. We’ve got a whole new generation of musicians—people who, for instance, program a beat box without any experience of a real drummer. When we first got beat boxes, we tried to program them to do what a drummer would do. Nowadays people haven’t… Continue reading

“Writing is neither vibrant life nor docile artifact but a text that would put all its money on the hope of suggestion.”  “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” – Mary Oliver, Upstream (2016) Continue reading

“Drummers have an odd relationship with time–they hate being late. I know that sounds like a joke but it’s true. Not just in music but in life. Turning up late for an appointment really annoys them. It fills me with a sense of failure. Every drummer I know gets uptight and obsesses about tardiness, as… Continue reading

“Incarnated as a digital instrument…all your behavior can be redefined using a language of algorithms that can be written and rewritten to change your nature. Indeed you might not feel that you have a nature as such, as a new software upgrade might change your behavior so completely that it does not remind you of… Continue reading

  “The ‘why’ is the driving force of all of our work. It means to take nothing for granted, and to ask ourselves if everything, absolutely everything, can be changed, developed, or improved. The ‘why’ is a symbol that reminds us that we don’t know anything, that we have much to learn, and that this… Continue reading

    “In the digital studio…everything you do is provisional. That is, it can be redone, reshaped, rebuilt.” Damon Krukowski, Ways Of Hearing (2019), p. 1 Continue reading