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Database: Actress On Sound Discovery
“The actual aesthetic of insane digital sound processing is not really where I’m coming from, I’m much more interested in textures and how sounds which probably shouldn’t work together are able to bend and cooperate. How sounds, once you’ve built some rudimentary programming blocks, just get let go and form the genesis of how ideas… Continue reading
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Musicians Are Like Magicians
“Music falls on the silence like a sense,A passion that we feel, not understand.” – Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” Musicians are like magicians,they conjure tricks in sound,like a rabbit from the hator notes behind the ear. Musicians are like magicians,they redirect our attentionwith gesturing hands,striking and strumming,chords become colors. Musicians are like… Continue reading
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Database: John Cale On Breaking Points
“You have to understand that the breaking point of some of the equipment, and the breaking point of some of the ideas, they are very close to each other.” John Cale database. Continue reading
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Keywords: Amplify
To amplify is to turn a quiet sound into a louder sound, making the small gargantuan, putting sound details under an audio microscope to hear them better. Amplify is boosted signal and boosted signal is now up close, foregrounded, the center of your attention. When we amplify a sound we solo its details, boost its… Continue reading
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Art About Music: Jan Saenredam’s “Sense of Hearing” (c. 1575-1657)
“Do not open your ears to the flattering sirens, that with sweet songs they hurt with charm.” Continue reading
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Database: Skee Mask On Not Just Reveling In The Sound and Not Understanding Devices Completely
“I try to make everything myself. Even when I just sample, I really try to program with the sample so that I’m not just reveling in the sound of the sample so that it doesn’t sound at all the way that it did before rhythmically. I try to somehow breathe new life into it from… Continue reading
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Keywords: Dub
Dub is the echo traces of a sound that just happened, a response following its call, extending the traces as they float on rhythm trajectories. Sound engineers in Jamaica (King Tubby, Lee Perry) were the first to hear dub’s potential, building gear to harness it, hearing the negative space opened up when you mute one… Continue reading
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