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Disconnected Music
Envision a music that’s truly free— without a WIFI connection or social media access a device left to its own, off the grid of Sharing and Liking and intertextual Thumbs Up, attuned to relations and shapes within not without, listening through its silence. Continue reading
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Fluid Metrical Feels, Delay Effects, And Rhythm In Nils Frahm’s “A Place” and “#2”
Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending quality time with Nils Frahm’s latest recording, All Melody. The album alternates between intimate solo piano work that is perhaps Frahm’s signature quietudes sound, and more expansive (and long) pieces built upon rolling electronic keyboard arpeggios swirling in delay-effected, rhythm deluges. Not that we need to categorize… Continue reading
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Musical Depth
depth the distance from the surface to the bottom of something; the apparent existence of three dimensions in a two-dimensional representation; complexity or profundity of thought As I wrote here a few years ago, music is a depth experience par excellence, that seems to have built into its design an endless capacity to conjure virtual… Continue reading
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Step Sequenced
The repeating sequence has a fixed number of steps that return again and again a sixteen beat cycle, one measure of time downbeats—1, 5, 9, 13—on the kick backbeats—3, 7, 11, 15—on the snare offbeats—2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16—on the hats the groove locked tempo steady rhythms measured a repeating sequence… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Jim Copperthwaite’s “The Dancers”
(This would be the moving theme song for an enchanting movie in which everything is not what it seems…) Continue reading
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Flip
Whether you’re a performer or a listener, when you’re involved in music you’re flipping your attention all the time, orienting it from one place to another, focusing on something near or far, just past or maybe about to happen, from the sounds to your emotions and then back to the sounds, in a repeating feedback… Continue reading
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