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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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Working Knowledge: Performing, Tinkering, Composing
“Think dynamically.” – Nassim Taleb, Skin in the Game (2018) Somewhere around 2002 I began making electronic music on a computer in a kind of old-fashioned way because I didn’t know any better: using a MIDI keyboard, my goal was to physically play every sound myself, one part at a time. There were a few… Continue reading
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Lessons From Composing Music Adapted To Writing
“So how did I learn to write? From listening to music. And what’s the most important thing in writing? It’s rhythm.” – Haruki Murakami Begin with something simple, even obvious, then complexify it to turn it into something else. From a single idea generate multiple parts and variations. Build a form, gradually, by introducing one… Continue reading
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Song On Sixth Avenue
It happens to be raining the busking band playing the epic ballad four purple chords B flat sus 2 Gm7 F E flat a progression repeated the sax singing the melody blowing variations and now I hear how a song is sad when the chords keep falling. Continue reading
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