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Performance Lessons
“The performer necessarily comes at the music from within […] Most often the performance situation catapults a musician into a rare and unusual condition, one that reveals the basic features of experience with eloquent directness, free, at least to some extent, from the usual overlay of cultural and philosophical presuppositions that nearly always obstruct our… Continue reading
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Database: Leafcutter John On Sound Sources
“The rule is anything can be a sound source as long as it’s right.” Leafcutter John database Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: W.G. Sebald’s ” A Place In The Country” (1998)
“What may be true of photography, though, is not necessarily applicable to art. The latter depends on ambiguity, polyvalence, resonance, obfuscation, and illumination […]” “Jan Peter Tripp’s paintings, too, have a consistently analytic quality rather than a synthesizing one. The photographic raw material which they take as their starting point is painstakingly modified. Artificial distinctions… Continue reading
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Keywords: Humanize, Quantize, Frankenize
If you make beats you work with timing on an infinitesimal scale. The timing or groove of a beat is as important as its rhythm patterns because timing conveys subtle, almost subliminal information about musicianship, directionality, intensity, and mood. Nuances of where a beat’s components hit in time–in relation to one another and in relation… Continue reading
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Keywords: In One Session
Although producing music is generally an iterative process in which you return to tracks begun yesterday, last week, or last year with an ear to gradually improving them, ideally it’s an all-at-once process that leverages time running out. In One Session is the principle of maximizing what you can improvise, record, edit, and arrange in… Continue reading
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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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