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Play—Or Doing Ever New Things With The Sounds You Already Have
Over the past few weeks I’ve been listening to Huerco S’s recording Plonk. The music finds many ways to hold a listener’s attention, and its sound-flow suggests someone playing with the artifacts of sounds, taking them apart, and arranging them into always new constellations. In other words, it’s not so much Huerco’s sounds that hold… Continue reading
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As A Single Flowing Gesture
(Ensō calligraphy by Kanjuro Shibata) “Too much thinking.” – Kanjuro Shibata, master bowmaker and archery teacher There is no best way of doing music production, but I find that when I approach a piece in terms of what might be called a single gesture I have the best chance of turning it into something that works.… Continue reading
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