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On The Limits Of Musical Timbre
When you’re working on a collection of music, it helps to have them unified in some way. The surest way to do this is for each piece to have the same instrumentation. I’ve done this with my music in that each of my recordings is scored for a single set of sounds. For example, Piano… Continue reading
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City Music
Not sure how music lives in the country but in the city it lives in headphones powering people up boom—gah-boom—gah boom—gah-boom—gah making force fields demarcating space keeping the party to yourself. Continue reading
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Frames Of Attention: Deciding On Musical Materials
One of the primary tasks involved in building a piece of music, a piece of writing, and I imagine a piece of visual art, is figuring out as early as possible in the process what materials you’ll be working with. For most of us, our process won’t reveal itself until we’re further along it, so… Continue reading
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On Musical Synergy
When I’m working on a piece I begin with a clear statement of its main part. This serves to introduce both the key and overall mood of the piece, as well the timbre of the part. The main part is always the part that sparked the piece. On my current project, which I’ve been talking… Continue reading
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Notes On Sharing Process
One of the many themes preached by social media gurus is that you need to create content that has value for your audience. The content-value-audience chain of connection is to be upheld at all times, lest your fans lose interest in what you’re doing, in what you’re selling. Is all this is true, then I’ve… Continue reading
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