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Sound Leaps
It’s the space between the marimba bar and its resonator where sound leaps from vibrating wood to metal column one oscillating to another horizontal plane to vertical from here to there the space is just as we do when we listen a leap from being struck by music to being moved by it becoming sound’s wave. Continue reading
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Musical Belief
belief—an acceptance that a statement is true or something exists Music can’t articulate claims about truth or falsity (can it?), but in its sounds and organization it can ring true or false or somewhere in between. One of the many things we do when we listen is try to figure out if we accept what… Continue reading
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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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