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Musical Logics
Musical logic is reasoning by other means— not knowing the key but feeling the mode not counting beats but feeling the pulse not planning the form but keeping it open not according to plan but making it up on your way. Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that… Continue reading
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On Minimalism and Maximalism
When I’m working on music I alternate a lot between what I call minimalism and maximalism. In addition to its meaning from avant grade music (as the repetition of short phrases that gradually change to create a hypnotic effect), minimalism for me means working with a single sound and finding much of interest in that.… Continue reading
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Notes On YouTube’s Low-fi Hip Hop Radio
Have you seen chilledcow’s YouTube channel, “Low-fi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to”? The channel is a looped anime-style animation of a young woman sitting at a desk in her apartment, taking notes and studying, occasionally looking out the window onto a nondescript (mediterranean?) cityscape. On the wall behind her is a bookcase,… Continue reading
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Annals Of Listening: Lackluster’s “Container” (2000)
A few years after I moved to New York I was shopping for electronic music at Kim’s Music and Video in the East Village. Kim’s had these little listening stations set up where you could put on headphones and preview CDs of new music. I put on some phones and listened to an album by… Continue reading
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On Micro-Adjustments And The Game Of Amounts
Electronic music production, said the producer Mr. Bill in one of his YouTube tutorials, is a game of amounts. It’s true. Bill was referring to the thousands of micro-adjustments one makes in the course of designing sounds, recording parts, arranging, and mixing a track of music. The process is simple but involved and very drawn… Continue reading
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Losing Objectivity
I had worked on the track for a year, which was far longer than I had ever worked on a ten-minute piece of music. In my defense, things take time: it had taken time to decide on sounds, time to get going and wonder where I was going, time to record chord progressions, beats, and… Continue reading
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