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Resonant Thoughts: Kyle Chayka’s “Filterworld” (2024)
“Today, it can often feel like there is no creativity without attention, and no attention without the accelerant of algorithmic recommendations.” “That kind of internal creative process, or even the process of thinking on one’s own, is something that feels lacking in the Filterworld era, when any idea or thought can be made instantly public Continue reading
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Database: Harold Budd On The Philosophy Of Doing Music In Real Time
“I never used the studio for its technological side since I only utilise a fraction of its capabilities to produce my music. That’s a philosophical point with me. An awful lot of music justifies itself on how sophisticated the technology is, but me, I don’t give a damn about the sophistication of the technology. I Continue reading
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Keywords: Always In Transition
(Photo: Marianne Bos) “Transition” notes Ernő Rubik, “is the very heart of inspiration and creativity”, and compelling music is always in transition on every level of its unfolding. Like a kaleidoscope in motion, music is a continuous becoming from one state to another—waveforms vibrating, chords progressing, melodies inventing, timbre-textures morphing, beats repeating, and arrangements growing—a Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Simon Reynolds’ “Futuromania” (2024)
“The Gas sound is literally spliced together out of small samples from classical records, which Voigt subjected to processes of ‘zoom, loop and alienation’. The music’s provenance is instantly audible from the rainfall-like hiss of aged vinyl, the discernibly orchestral sonorities of the grave cellos and tingling violins. There’s a marvelous irony to the fact Continue reading
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Keywords: Under Ten Sounds
The number is arbitrary, but consider keeping the number of sounds in a track to ten or less. Under ten sounds is a bulwark against music production’s abundances–a constraining line drawn around the music that says, Just these sounds are enough to do what we want to do. Under ten sounds is a point of Continue reading
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Database: Sean Booth On Drafts All The Way Down
“What I tend to do is work with a very basic idea. Everything is drafts. It’s drafts all the way down. You do something and you think, Is this good? Yes or no? If no, what do I change to make it good? You keep doing that and at some point you think, Yes, okay Continue reading
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