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Fragments: Musical Advice 2
(Saphhos’ poem “An Old Age” [lines 9-20]. Papyrus from 3 cent. B.C.) Don’t wait for permission. Max out what you can accomplish in one session because a session is focused time, and therefore, precious. Incorporate one novel element or technique into each track. Novelty is your leading edge that extends alongside the music. Gradually and Continue reading
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Database: Barbara Braccini On Spending Hours Recording And Using A Few Seconds
“…this one synth that I spent so much time on that I loved, an Udo Super 6. I would record the signal on Logic, but I wouldn’t even think of the computer. I wasn’t even facing it. It felt very nice to just jam and play around with it. I would spend hours on that Continue reading
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Musical Remodeling as Defamiliarizing
Recently I’ve been remodeling music I haven’t yet released. I like the original tracks as they are, but remodeling is an opportunity to build a surprise, a chance to hear what happens when one’s prior work is bracketed and used as material for new music. The most exciting part of remodeling is defamiliarizing a track Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past” (2020)
“Memory and forgetting: these are the faculties of mind by which we are aware of time, and time is a mystery. In addition, a long tradition holds that the imagination is best conceived as operating with a mixture of memory and forgetting. Creation—things coming into being that never were before—that too is a mystery. Writers Continue reading
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