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Database: Plaid On Mistakes Leading To Originality
“Often the originality is in the mistakes. You might try and make a drum and bass track but don’t have the skills so it turns out a bit weird..but that kind of weird is something new…something stranger and more exciting might come out it.” Andy Turner (aka Plaid) Continue reading
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Musical Genealogies: Aphex Twin’s “#3” (1994-2024)
Released in 1994, Richard James/Aphex Twin’s “#3”, sometimes referred to as “Rhubarb”, is a beautiful, almost disinterested piece of music. Anchored by a five-chord pad sequence, the track runs seven minutes thanks to repetition, a modular structure, and some beguiling Aphexian details. The structure is broadly in seven parts. It begins with the main chords,… Continue reading
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Database: Guy Brewer On Constraints To Define Your Sound
“As much as I’m all for people letting go while writing and just letting the process take them forward, I also think there’s a certain amount of thought that should go into deciding who you want to be, what you want to represent. I choose bits of equipment for each track because I know they… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Witold Rybczynski’s “How Architecture Works: a Humanist’s Toolkit” (2011)
“You arrive at the sublime or poetic not by metaphor, but by making virtues out of necessity. That’s the secret of design.” Diamond Schmitt “The plan is the generator.” Le Corbusier “Values, not rules.” Witold Rybczynski, How Architecture Works Continue reading
