rhythm
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Resonant Thoughts: Jason Karp On Rhythm
“It’s a lot about rhythm and trying to find that rhythm and let the rhythm carry you so you don’t feel like you’re having to push the whole time. Let the rhythm carry you through the whole way. It makes the rhythm bigger: when you have more than one person there it’s the collective rhythm Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Michael Crawley’s “Out Of Thin Air” (2021)
“To ‘follow someone’s feet’ is to share their rhythm and to feed off their energy, and leading or pacemaking is therefore often described by the runners in Addis as ‘bearing someone else’s burden.’ The runners are expected to learn to share their energy and to improve together.” “When runners ask, ‘Condition yet alle?‘ (‘Where is Continue reading
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Resonant Thought: Edgard Varèse On Rhythm
“Rhythm is the element in music that gives life to the work and holds it together. It is the element of stability, the generator of form.” – Edgard Varèse, The Liberation Of Sound Continue reading
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Notes On Programming Rhythms
As I teach myself how to program rhythms that I enjoy listening to, I’ve learned some lessons that might interest the musicians among my readers. Lesson One: the most efficient way to program a rhythm is to play it. You can play it all at once, as I do, one part at a time, Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: George Coleman Gow’s “Rhythm: The Life Of Music” (1915)
“At the outset we have to remind ourselves that rhythm is not a factor essentially musical. Psychologically it is the apotheosis of the act of attention— attention at its greatest tension.” – George Coleman Gow, “Rhythm: The Life of Music,” in The Musical Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 4 (October 1915), pp. 637. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: On Simon Critchley’s “What We Think About When We Think About Soccer” (2017)
On phenomenology: Phenomenology is the attempt “to get close, as close as possible, to the grain, texture, and existential matrix of experience as it is given, and to allow words to echo that experience in a way that might allow us to see it in a new light, under a changed aspect” (17). On rhythm: Continue reading
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Music Distillation: On Ryoji Ikeda’s “Supercodex 08”
Rhythms, frequencies as bits of information– sounds anonymous. Read about music distillations here. Continue reading
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On Sinister And Dynamic Rhythmic Energy: Laurel Halo’s “Oneiroi”
“I guess I just wanted to record what I was doing live. Basically when I got into the studio to record those tracks I found myself playing around with the patterns more, playing around with the samples more, trying to find what was particularly gripping, or dynamic. I wanted the tracks to have this sinister Continue reading
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