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Attention Through Invention And Intention: Notes On Aphex Twin
Recently I was listening to Aphex Twin (Richard D. James)’s music—tracks both older and more recent—and was struck by the ways the music held my attention. James is legendary, in part because of the consistent musicality and inventiveness of his work, and also because his assets as a producer are all-encompassing: his productions are both Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Benedicte Maurseth’s “To Be Nothing: Conversations With Knut Hamre, Hardanger Fiddle Master” (2019)
“Ah, but what is inspiration, exactly? Is it something that comes to us spontaneously? Or is inspiration something that helps the flow of spontaneity? Or perhaps the only way of creating something spontaneous is by using the knowledge we gain from hard, methodical work? I would lean toward the latter. I have never understood people Continue reading
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Sound Fishing
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Richard Evans’ “Listening To The Music The Machines Make” (2022) and Dan Leroy’s “Dancing To The Drum Machine” (2022)
“I thought electronic music was the next logical step. A synth was no longer an elitist instrument, and that was an important point. You didn’t have to be a musician; if you had good ideas, you could make music out of electronics.” – Daniel Miller in Listening To The Music The Machines Make “I want Continue reading
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Database: Aphex Twin On Composing
“But the actual composing, you don’t want to be thinking for that. You need to think to set things up then you want to channel whatever it is from wherever it’s coming from. If you can concentrate long enough and you get to the right place then hopefully you’ve stopped thinking completely.” – Apex Twin Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Benedicte Maurseth’s “Heilo” (2022)
(One of my top listens of the year–even the birds at 4:29 are in key…) 2022 playlist Continue reading
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On The Musically Untried
The more musical things I try, the more I realize I may not be trying as much new stuff as I could be. The very workflow habits that get me results also keep me in ruts of my own making and returning to my go-to strategies and techniques keeps me from new ways of doing Continue reading
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