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Many Lines From A Single Gesture
It’s easy to fret over the direction a new track might take. We wonder, Have I begun in a potent place or painted myself into a corner before I’ve gotten going? But a direction can be figured out as you move along the production process. What’s most important, initially, is your gesture. I’ve thought about gesture in Continue reading
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Making Music Is Phenomenology
“I was thinking, yes, but in shifting shapes and rhythms and dimly colored vectors, thinking with my senses, feeling my way toward insights and understandings that had more the form of feelings blooming in my belly than of statements being spoken within my skull.” David Abram, Becoming Animal (2011), p. 112 Making music is phenomenology—accessing Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Hua Hsu’s “Stay True: A Memoir” (2022)
“Music no longer modeled a better world.” “She was asking, what is history? Do you see yourself in it? Where did you find your models for being in the world? How did you learn about love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice? She was looking for turning points. Maybe a feeling, Continue reading
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Windows Of Attention
Consider two scenes. You’re on your way somewhere–riding the elevator, walking, or sitting on the train–listening to music. You don’t have much time so you listen closely and the music has an urgency about it. You notice details in the sounds, details you hadn’t noticed before. You’re sitting at an instrument, making music. You were Continue reading
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