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Catching Signals: Notes On Junkie XL’s Film Scoring Videos
“Hello! This is Tom—Junkie XL—and welcome to Studio Time with Junkie XL, who else?” -Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL Even as YouTube has become a vibrant, open-to-all marketplace for amateur music producers to show off their production workflows (a topic I have been writing about in some forthcoming essay collections), it’s not as often that… Continue reading
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Lessons From Dilla 5: You Don’t Have To Stay On The Grid
Play a metronome along with this and it will never stay lined up. That’s a good thing: the musical time lives. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Erling Kagge’s “Silence” (2017)
“Negative beauty—by virtue of all that is not present.” “I am constantly interrupted, interruptions engendered by other interruptions. I rummage around in a world that has little to do with me. Attempt to be effective until I realize I won’t get any further regardless of how effective I’ve become.” “The essential thing is the contrast… Continue reading
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Wander
wander – to move in a leisurely, causal, or aimless way I wander all the time when I’m running which is to say that for a part of each day, most days of the week, I’m outside wandering somewhere—going up and down back streets, over fields (such as they are in New York), past airports,… Continue reading
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Notes On A Nils Frahm Concert
In mid-March I went to hear Nils Frahm perform at The Knockdown Center, an open barn-like space in the middle of nowhere in an industrial neighborhood of Maspeth, Queens. There were about three thousand of us, drawn by curiosity about how Frahm might perform his part-neo-classical, part-electronic, part-almost-pop yet always experimental instrumental music. I walked… Continue reading
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Lessons From Dilla 4: Use Pulsating Sounds
Use pulsating sounds. Continue reading
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From The Archives: Notes On John Berger’s “Portraits”
“The given is a prison.” – John Berger, Portraits, p. 37. Notes on John Berger’s “Portraits” Continue reading
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Playing Along
When I’m composing I’m almost always playing along with something that’s already sounding. Pop musicians often begin with a groove, but since I don’t make beat music (at the moment) I often begin with free improvisation at the keyboard. I’m searching for something—a chord, a bit of melody—that I haven’t exactly heard before. I’m searching… Continue reading
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