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Database: Jacob Collier On Even Though There’s Just Two Speakers There’s Always space
“[Mixing] is a constant prioritization about what should be in the background, what should be in the foreground, how do you carve a satisfying set of journeys where everything goes on a little path and paths connect. I think it’s just a matter of listening very carefully to what’s there and not being afraid to Continue reading
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Keywords: Not Knowing What You’re Listening For Until You Hear It
(Painting: Fernand Khnopff, “Listening to Schumann” [1883]) Composers who write for acoustic musicians have a good idea of the soundworld they’re scoring for: an orchestra, a wind quartet, a choir, a percussion ensemble. But this isn’t the case with music producers as they create both a palette of sounds and the virtual acoustic/synthetic spaces these Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Kyle Chayka’s “The Longing for Less: What’s Missing from Minimalism” (2020)
[On the art of Agnes Martin] “They’re consistently sized, most of them six-foot squares of canvas, and as simple and gentle as any artwork ever made, yet with an inner strength. Each canvas is covered with repeating patterns in soft, pale colors; some are grids drawn with a ruler in pencil, others vertical or horizontal Continue reading
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Same Walk, Different Music
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “Hand Covers Bruise” (2010). This four-and-a-half minute track is a gem of minimalist melody, orchestration, and form. The music is the opening theme of the 2010 film The Social Network, which chronicles the earliest days of Facebook and historicizes how Mark Zuckerberg invented a website that would go on to Continue reading
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Database: Michel Bras On Aesthetics From Nature And The Expressiveness Of Limited Means
“There is an expression I love from Jean-Paul Sartre: ‘Nature talks, experience translates it.’ All the aesthetics of my plates, I picked up from nature. There is an aestheticization of cooking for me that came from my relationship with nature. And there is another expression I adore from [artist Pierre] Soulages which says: ‘Plus les Continue reading
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Database: Bjarki On Field Recordings And Free Energy
“Making field recordings is just trying to capture a certain mood. A lot of the sound that you hear–drums, percussion–I would like to capture certain vibe from nature by just going out with a drumstick and trying to find a kick drum in the stones, or trying to find the kick drum in the sand Continue reading
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