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Musical Distortions
distort – to pull or twist out of shape, change the form of; from the Latin distorquere (‘apart’ + ‘to twist) Among the many interesting and unanticipated discoveries made while producing electronic music is hitting upon distortions that cause sounds to behave in unusual ways. The most common type of distortion is overdriving or saturating… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Calvin Tomkins’ “Vija Celmins’s Surface Matters” (2019)
“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
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Five Benefits Of Writing Regularly
You no longer feel you have nothing to say, because evidence points to your saying things all the time. You become less attached to whether particular ideas are “good” and more into the process that generates ideas in general. You see ideas as small and specific things rather than large and vague things, and more… Continue reading
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On Musical Transitions
I’ve been thinking about transitions—that is, how the music gets from one place to another. One of the pros of DAW music software that is simultaneously a con is that in your arrangement page view you can juxtapose a bunch of discrete sections of music and have them seamlessly play in sequence as if that… Continue reading
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Arrows Of Attention: A Pattern Language For Electronic Music Production
Arpeggiate Automate Breakdown Browse Compress Copy And Paste Delay and Echo EQ Extend Fade In / Fade Out Filter Sweep Fractalize Harmonize Humanize Interrupt Juxtapose Layer Loop Mix Mute Pan Pedal Note Quantize Randomize Recombine Reduce Remix Repeat Resample Re-Tune Reverb Reverse Route Stretch Subdivide Syncopate Texturize Transform Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: James Williams’ “Stand Out Of Our Light” (2018)
“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
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