music
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Musical Prompts: Four Rooms
In a large gallery with white walls and hardwood floors, heard from the end of the room. A pad sound plays loud and long chord washes, while the sub bass underneath moves away from root notes. The sound overwhelms the room and you. It’s hard to tell if the music is repeating or not. In… Continue reading
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Musical Longitudes And Latitudes
Music has geography– located in a place, rooted in a set of coordinates, mappable onto interpretive grids. Like a spinning globe music’s time moves from left to right, it’s melodies fall from high to low, it’s bass and treble create near and far. Music has depth–it’s 4D. Music also has inner coordinates. Imagine smashing that… Continue reading
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Notes On Toggling Between (Disparate?) Musics
Lately I’ve been thinking about toggling. I think about it as I switch among various go-to apps on my phone–email, news, Twitter, blog, music player, Wikipedia, calendar, amazon.com–back and forth, quickly, seamlessly, without thinking much about it. The process, made possible by the technology of my phone, feels like the essence of thinking itself: continuous… Continue reading
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Music Distillation: On AlunaGeorge’s “Your Drums, Your Love”
Triple pitch drumming, saccharine auto-tuned voice, synthetic joy-noise. Continue reading
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Music Distillation: On Olivier Messiaen’s “Cloches L’Angloisse Et Larmes D’Adieu”
Piano bells beyond, clusters equal transcendence, resounding, modern. Continue reading
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On Another Kind Of Wonder
My new recording, Another Kind Of Wonder, is available now. Here is the first track, “Splash”: The recording is available at cdbaby. Continue reading
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On Pantha Du Prince And Bell Laboratory’s Elements Of Light
“I think techno music at the moment is just an infrastructure. Basically, it’s not a musical term anymore. It used to be more like straight, technical funk. Nowadays, it is more of an infrastructure where you have certain beat patterns that you can call techno music. But in the end, it’s a social and economic infrastructure. The name… Continue reading
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Microthought: On Musical Process
Music. Music finds a way around us. Music, that subliminal force, finds a way around us, through our ears, into our hearts. Your Music might not be my Music, that subliminal force that finds a way around us, through our ears, into our hearts. If we traded musics, you and I, do we trade minds… Continue reading
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