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Brett’s Sound Picks: Steve Reich / Nexus, “Mallet Phase” (2021)
When I listen to the early works of composer Steve Reich, I imagine that I’m a single pitch asked to carry out feats of endurance, steadiness, and synchronization. The composer has me traveling around tape loops, ricocheting off sets of bongos, and thrumming across marimbas in patterns like those multistable M.C. Escher staircases that go… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: J. Krishnamurti On Listening
Putting Aside Screens “How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the… Continue reading
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Seven Super Heuristics
Can I hear the part perfectly? Is the piece’s structure audible? Is the pacing/tempo right? Nail the part the first time. Stay value neutral and suspend disbelief about the music’s prospects. Close enough for now keeps the process moving. Good taste is the sharpest tool. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Tim Ingold’s “Correspondences” (2021)
“Words, spoken or handwritten, echo the pulse of things. They can caress, startle, enchant, repel…” “We might cease our endless writing about performance, and become performers ourselves.” “…we should work our words as craftsmen work their materials, in ways that testify, in their inscriptive traces, to the labour of their production, and that offer these… Continue reading
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