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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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Ventrilo-Dialogue: An Imagined Conversation With Harold Budd
Tom: Thanks for talking with me today Harold. Budd: Sure. T: I’ve been enjoying your keyboard music for many years and I’m curious to know how you came to your way of playing. You once said in a Red Bull interview, “I’m not a pianist, any piano player will tell you that…Just take responsibility, it’s… Continue reading
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Revisiting Harold Budd’s Music
Like many enduringly interesting things, Harold Budd’s music enriches your experience while being difficult to describe. He plays piano (and sometimes electronic keyboards) in a style that is ambient and quite gentle. It’s not jazz or new age, and certainly not pop. It doesn’t run through a series of chord changes, or variations on a… Continue reading
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Tech Talk
We were talking tech about the Jetsons watch that takes calls and your pulse and a tablet with glass touchscreen then I remembered my old computer in the 90s with black and white graphics and a MIDI connection beloved for simulating music I said I’m astonished by digital’s latest and do you think maybe one day our minds will… Continue reading
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