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Performance Notes: Imagining A Perfect Musical System
I imagine a perfect musical system would begin by asking me questions. What are you feeling today? What is on your mind? Where do you want to go? How do you want to be? Then the system would generate a series of sound sets based on my mood and my imagination. These sound sets would… Continue reading
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Talking About Musical Time
J. and I were talking about musical technique of a sort, maybe something more. We were talking about the feel of another drummer’s time, about how in tiny ways it sounded wonky. He plays louder instead of stronger I say making gestures like clouds. J. reaches for a conclusion already formed. His playing doesn’t have… Continue reading
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The Percussionist
The next time you’re at a concert notice the melodists up front –those singing, strumming, bowing or blowing through pipes– and watch them sway with the tune as if they invented its themes as if they’re unlocking its emotions then notice the rhythmicists at the back –those drumming hammer blows or mallet strikes– and feel how they… Continue reading
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The Sampler
It begins with a sound I want but have not earned the right to use because the sound isn’t from me I didn’t make it it isn’t mine it had a life before I came along to yank it forward in time separate it from its context ignoring its history I just need its potential… Continue reading
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Dialed In
The phrase posits people as a set of knobs for twisting lining up their numbers as if concentration is a radio or combination lock in search of the right station reducing the static click into action to hack thinking input the numbers quantify the self put it on the line believing that performing is running… Continue reading
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