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Database: Malibu On New Music And Reinventing Codes
“Unless you invent a completely different way to make music, you’re not making new music. The only way that music today can be new is just in the way that late eighties and nineties babies reinvent[ed] all these pop codes that we grew up with and that we make our own.” Malibu database Continue reading
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Keywords: Music’s Lacunae
Consider the unfilled spaces of musical practice, its lacunae. Like the speech balloon emoji, which symbolizes someone speaking, music’s lacunae evoke the not-yet-said, its three dots proxies for in-progress, anticipation and mystery, and the spaces in which the musician/composer/producer works something out through sound, represents the ineffable,make sense out of style and style out of… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Peter Schjeldahl On Outsider Artists And Critics
“Every good artist is an outsider artist, in a way that counts; and every good critic is an outsider critic, in a way that counts. Good art and good criticism are not ‘practices’—that horrible word, so prevalent in art babble lately. Practices are professional specialties. Associated with art, the word assumes settled social agreements on… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: David Hockney On Layering Time
“My main argument was that a photograph could not be looked at for a long time. Have you noticed that? You can’t look at most photos for more than, say, thirty seconds. It has nothing to do with the subject matter. I first noticed this with erotic photographs, trying to find them lively: you can’t.… Continue reading
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Keywords: Instrument Agnosticism
Pompeo Massani, The Itinerant Musicians (1880-1889) If you’re a musician, you’re devoted to a single instrument you’ve learned to a depth that it feels expressive. But a music producer’s devotion is diffuse–it has more than one object. It’s in this way that musicians who compose by producing are instrument agnostic. Agnostic not in the sense… Continue reading
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