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The Music Speaks Up
The music keeps reminding you that you don’t know it well enough, that you’re not paying attention to what it needs. You’re not listening. You’re hearing what you hope I should be, rather than what I am. The music is tight but not right, filled out but not filled in, descriptive but not imaginative. Listen… Continue reading
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On Being Musically Authentic
authentic — of undisputed origin; genuine; real; bonafide; legit Every artist aspires to be authentic to how he or she thinks of themselves to be. In an ideal world, we would only make the music/art/literature/sculpture that we want to pursue, whether that’s because it expresses us, it expresses a concept important to us, seems compelling… Continue reading
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Friday Freestyle: A Miscellany Of Ten Things I’m Thinking About
This week I introduce Friday Freestyle: A Miscellany Of Ten Things I’m Thinking About. It’s a new post format in which I share ideas and questions without developing them further into blog posts. It may become a regular thing, or this may be the first and last installment! I really don’t know. • What are… Continue reading
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On Musical Knowing
We have a recurring sense that we don’t know much about music. A sense that we tried to learn a lot, but came up short. A sense that we can’t commit to one musical thing. But we know some musical things, a knowing that lives in experience, which includes the musics we’ve heard and the… Continue reading
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Notes On Anti-Automated Music
“The higher the creativity component of a profession, the more likely it is to have disconnected inputs and outputs.” – Naval Ravikant No one, especially me, wants to listen to automated music—music, acoustic or electronic, that’s on auto-pilot, that just unfolds without responding to its environment or to the subtleties of its own exigencies. (I… Continue reading
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Rain Music
The rain falling outside the window makes a full spectum sound from highs to mids to lows polyphony’s million tiny transients gentle envelopes over rhythmic water drone and now thunder bass this 3D mix is just like music. Continue reading
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