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Thinking About How Musicians Think When Playing: Music As Sensory Enhancement And Heightening
Getting at how musicians think while they’re playing—what they think about, where their thinking goes and how it interfaces with the sounds they make and hear—seems like a tall task of understanding, a challenge like asking a tennis or soccer player: what was going through your mind when you played that shot/when you scored that goal?… Continue reading
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Piano, Metals And Organ Music
Available on Spotify and Apple Music. (Mastered by Alain Van Achte) Continue reading
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Musical Stereotypes
Pop is simple form predictably returning the young showing off their catchy hooks classical is complex form elite and large-scale snobby about its origins country is conservative thought regular guy sound ideology disguised as sentimentality metal is a blade sharpened through distortion and volume angry about its isolation dance is four-on-the-floor lost in relentless moments… Continue reading
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How Musics Learn
In music, change of one type or another is what we listen for, what we crave as information-seeking beings. Change is what keeps us listening and interested: we listen for the moments when something happens, dramatic or subtle, when one state of affairs transforms into another. Change can happen extremely fast—from one chord becoming… Continue reading
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Music Waits
It’s 5:28pm and I’ve done everything but work on the music which waits for guidance waits for me to fix it align its relations let its logic sing. Continue reading
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