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Resonant Thoughts: Tim Krabbé’s “The Rider” (1978)
“On a bike your consciousness is small. The harder you work, the smaller it gets. Every thought that arises is immediately and utterly true, every unexpected event is something you’d known all along but had only forgotten for a moment. A pounding riff from a song, a bit of long division that starts over and… Continue reading
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Notes On Notated Versus Produced Music
A percussionist recently got in touch to ask if he could buy a copy of one of my percussion scores, Zoom (1994) for some chamber performances this summer. (You can listen to me playing the music here, and my remix of it here.) I told him I’d check if I had a hard copy in… Continue reading
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Music Lessons 2
Music is like an organism a delicate constellation of interrelated parts each of which needs to work perfectly to maintain the spell like a living thing robust when moving well flexible and even-tempered like a biology in sound one beat ahead of its own extinction. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Philip Brophy’s “100 Modern Soundtracks” (2004)
“The ‘nature of sound’…is not a/any/all sound’s essential or absolute guise (as such divination is impossible) but its irreducible behavior, distinctive apparition and ingrained purpose. It eschews any essence as to what it might be—as if it is a metaphor pointing to some sonic soul that has motivated the act of description—and instead accepts its… Continue reading
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Different Types Of Musicians
Once in a while I imagine different general musician types, among which I include myself. Here are six types: The underplayer. The underplayer doesn’t play “out” or deliberately enough. He’s often fairly recently out of school (a college music program), has his playing together and knows the notes, but there’s something missing. Maybe his… Continue reading
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Optimal Conditions
Much of doing is waiting for the right time to do anything but especially the music morning’s too early evening too late the afternoon can work if properly configured meaning I need to adjust myself to its parameters freeze thinking become its vibration so I wait procrastinate sweep and clean arrange everything just so the moment… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jacques Attali’s “Noise” (1977)
“In music, the instrument often predates the expression it authorizes…it contributes, through the possibilities it offers, to the birth of a new music, a renewed syntax.” -Jacques Attali, Noise, p. 35. Continue reading
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