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Listening To Old Track Ideas
I try to stay organized with my music, but I don’t have a surefire way of keeping track of everything I’ve done. What happens is that as unfinished pieces accumulate I assume that I’ll remember the ones with potential–that they’ll somehow float to top of mind. But my remembering is influenced by what’s in front… Continue reading
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12 Accidental Epistemologies
Keep Trying (Effort) Finesse It (Craft) Make Errors (Freewheeling) It’s Not Working, Right? (Reality Check) Ah, Finally! (Insight) Is It Unclear? (Discernment) That’s Derivative (Genealogies Of Artistic Influence) Identify The Macro In The Micro (Thinking Fractally) Concentrate The Experience (Intensifying, Distilling) Differences Make The Difference (Details Are Meaningful Details) Consistency Beats Intensity (Performance, Paced Over… Continue reading
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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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