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Ways Of Tonal Evolutions
(Image: Casey Horner) Listening to contemporary ambient music I notice that much of it is constructed from broad washes of sound, or what could be called tonal drones. Drones are sustained pitches that establish a mood, not a direction; they conjure a stasis, not forward movement. For many electronic music producers working in ambient’s orbit,… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Merve Emre’s “Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism?” (2023)
“Establishing a formal method of critical inquiry was in part an attempt to put literary studies on a par with the sciences, which were the chief models for the development of the professions in the university. Close reading branched out into many methods of reading—rhetorical reading for the deconstructionists, symptomatic reading for the Marxists, reparative… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Arvo Pärt On Bell Sound
“If a single bell is struck, and we contemplate the nature of its sound– the Klang at impact, the spread of sound after this initial gesture, and then the lingering cloud of resonance–what we hear takes us to the heart of tintinnabuli. A finely wrought bell makes one of the most mysterious and creative sounds;… Continue reading
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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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