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Database: Biosphere On The Fragment
“I work a lot on the fragment. Even when I am in the studio, I think it is the unit of language which then develops the rest. Even in the approach to Monteverdi, I worked on the fragment, I would say even on the fragmented nature of the creative process: I worked on sound tissue Continue reading
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Keywords: Feedback
Feedback not in the sense of a microphone in front of a speaker, shrieking frequencies, but as one track plugged into another, connected, folding the music upon itself like a mixing board bent into origami. Feedback as returning this sound upon that sound, output becoming input becoming output again, in an infinite loop. Try to Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Chad Engelland’s “Phenomenology” (2020)
“Phenomenology recognizes an inner kinship between experience and language; the exhibited phenomena achieve a kind of completion when they are articulated. The challenge is to find a way of speaking that takes its bearings from the phenomena themselves and in this way lets them be exhibited and remembered as they are.” “Phenomenological books are trail Continue reading
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Database: Rrose On Putting Sound First
“I put a bunch of elements together, and if I hear something emerging out of those combinations of elements, that’s where I try and investigate further. Instead of getting an idea and thinking, ‘I want to make something that sounds like this’ and then figuring out how to make it, I’m putting a bunch of Continue reading
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Resist & Amplify
In music production you find yourself in situations that frame the music-in-progress in one way or another. Some of these situations you want to resist and some you want to amplify. You resist a situation when it constrains how the music could develop, and you amplify a situation when it encourages the music to go Continue reading
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Database: Chris Clark On The Zone of Just Dabbling
“I’m very fond of getting stuff down really quickly and rendering to groups and just condensing mass of recordings and then letting stuff fall away that isn’t hitting me.” “I find that abstract realm of experimentation—it’s such a great place to start to just experience ultimate freedom. You’re not thinking about making a hit; you’re Continue reading
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