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Ventrilo-Dialogue: A Conversation Between A Composer And A Remixer
Composer: I want to talk to you about creativity and the differences between my musical work and yours. Remixer: Sounds good. But already I’m wondering why the differences are so crucial to you? C: For one thing, it’s hard for me to consider what you do as music. R: Ahh. Because I don’t play an… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ian Bostridge’s “Schubert’s Winter Journey ” (2015)
“For all of us, unless we’re making a special and determined effort of analysis, our encounter with music is more episodic and even cavalier, less relentlessly theoretical—even when we’re listening to a piece from the great tradition that presents itself as musical argument, a Beethoven symphony for example, or a Bach fugue. Within as diffuse… Continue reading
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Musical Doubt
doubt – a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction “While the theories come and go, the phenomenologies stay.” – Nassim Taleb, Antifragile (2014) When I’m playing music, composing it, or writing about it, a feeling of doubt repeatedly presents itself. Do I really buy what I’m doing? Whether we’re talking about making sounds or… Continue reading
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Silent Music
On the moving train wearing headphones I mean to listen to sounds perfectly apropos to the moment wanting to be moved while moving but I forget to hit play. Continue reading
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Freestyle: Music Aphorisms 5
Browsing through sound presets in soft synthesizers reminds us that sound designers do not necessarily create sounds that are musical. (Are they musicians?) Our ears relish relations and meaningful patterns in the music more than (merely) attractive sounds. It’s as if the busy hi hat patterns in contemporary hip hop are (desperately) trying to get… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Deckle Edge’s “Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
“Against a rising tide of automation and increasing digital complexity, we are becoming further divorced from the very thing that defines us: we are makers, crafters of things. When our lives once comprised an almost unbroken chain of movements and actions as we interacted physically with the material requirements of our existence, today we stare… Continue reading
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The Problem Of Exactitude
exactitude – not approximate in any way; precise, from the Latin verb exigere – to thoroughly perform The phrase the problem of exactitude occurs to me to describe a kind of left-field situation I encounter regularly when I’m working on music or writing about it. The situation can be described as a tension between my… Continue reading
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