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Things Not In The Mix
“Pay attention. Focus on your surroundings, physical and psychological. Notice something that bothers you, that concerns you, that will not let you be, which you could fix, that you would fix. You can find such somethings by asking yourself (as if you genuinely want to know) three questions: ‘What is it that is bothering me?’… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ólafur Arnalds On “The Player Pianos Part II”
“You get things that wouldn’t make sense if you were actually playing them. So you would never think of them. Because writing and improvising on a piano is very much based on muscle memory. But with this you get rid of all that. You get this pure, unrestricted creativity.” Continue reading
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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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