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Sounding Like A Pro
I run into versions of this phrase a lot as I coast over music websites and catalogs, surveying the gear. Ads for equipment and instruction promise that if you have this or that piece of pro gear or if you play this or that way you’ll be one step closer to sounding like a pro. Sounding… Continue reading
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Timing Techniques: Listening Over People, Rhythmically Resisting, And Super Rhythm
There’s a spot in the show where I have a solo—a moment to set the time for everyone else. The conductor thinks he’s in charge, but no, he’s actually following me in my moment of laying it down, which is simultaneously my moment to test a hypotheses. The hypothesis is this: at some point in… Continue reading
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Breakbeat Thinking
Back in the early 80s the turntablists found the breakdowns the funky bits where the band stops and the rhythms keep running soon the samplers were grabbing hook-textures from old records reinflating the past to pop it in the present it was about finding the rhythm in things the grooves of juxtaposition a well-timed turnaround an accidental… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Kodwo Eshun On Listening
“Sometimes listening to music is more about listening to your own ways of listening, hearing your own ways of hearing. Wondering what you’re hearing. And sometimes you need time to do it, and that’s when the anxiety sets in. Everyone around you says that listening is time-wasting, but you have to remind yourself that listening… Continue reading
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On Jon Hopkins At Brooklyn Steel
I recently went to hear Jon Hopkins perform at Brooklyn Steel, a shoebox-shaped warehouse located on the lonely north edge of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I only caught the end of the performance, but what I saw was stellar. Hopkins played music from his latest release, Singularity, an album which aims to recreate, in a sort of… Continue reading
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Stolen Music
In the micro moments when no one notices where nothing matters and how can anything possibly happen your playing is accidental focus not busyness sound caring for a minute— that’s where things begin. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Verlyn Klinkenborg’s “Several short sentences about writing” (2013)
“There’s little actual logic in good writing. There’s a current of thoughts and ideas and observations. Some may be linked by evidence. One point may substantiate or corroborate another. But what passes for logic or argument is usually little more than a succession of ideas Connected mostly by proximity and analogy. Writing doesn’t prove anything.… Continue reading
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