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In Times of Crisis (End of 2020 Mix)
The title of my end of the year mix of tracks from releases I purchased on Bandcamp in 2020 and one track off of one of my own releases is borrowed from one of the most beautiful releases on Longform Editions in this year, Carmen Villain’s otherworldly Affection in a Time of Crisis. Although all…
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Liner notes for the radically minimalist piece Patterns
Patterns is a minimalist piece for one sample and electronics. The sole sound material is a sample of one bell, which I stroke twice. This pattern of two bell strikes and two silences of different length is looped throughout the 30 minute piece. The regular pattern is manipulated first with different delays and the three…
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Last Christmas
No, this is not about the song, you are thinking about. Last Christmas I presented myself with the GRM tool bundle named “Creative” and advertised on the INA GRM webpage as to be the thing “For musicians !”. I was curious about these tools mainly because of INA GRM’s close historical connection with musique concrète.…
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Verbal score for my drone piece “Ad nihilum”
Try to do nothing Try to not do Try to do not much Try to not play Try to listen only Try to keep listening only Try to not play with the faders Try to leave the sound alone Try to leave the sound alone and listen Try to leave the sound alone to evolve…
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I can’t title this (or the art of titling)
It’s not a secret to those who know me and my music a little bit that I have an ongoing obsession with and deep appreciation for the music of the late Danielle Baquet-Long of Chubby Wolf and Celer. Some even know that Chubby Wolf’s record Ornitheology has been kind of an awakening experience for me,…
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How to use a poem as a score
My composition “Page 220” has been made for the collaborative music project Disquiet Junto. Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto group, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. https://disquiet.com The assignment for Disquiet Junto 0449 was…
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Time to announce the record of the year
Geneva Skeen’s new record is aptly titled Double Bind. Not only the last track on the record with the same title is really a double bind, but double bind is the concept behind the whole album. It is an ambient album, but you will not be able to lean back and enjoy the beautiful sonic…
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Alban Berg’s invention of the drone
(and my drone piece The Trumpet, Casting a Wondrous Sound in Tombs) Scene 2 of act 3 of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck is an Invention on a note (B♮). It is the scene in which Wozzeck kills his girlfriend and mother of their child Marie. B♮ symbolized death for Alban Berg, who despite of the fact…
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Music and words, words and music (Liner notes for Sweetness Falls in the Dark)
Beyond words. What we cannot speak about, because we have no language for it, we still can express in music. Music is the language beyond language. No. I don’t believe in the supremacy of music. We cannot tell in music what we cannot tell in language. There is nothing to tell beyond language. Why should…
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Ashley Paul’s lock down album
Multiinstrumentalist/composer Ashley Paul has released a new album composed and recorded during lock down in summer. It’s a collection of songs – with or without lyrics – for the trio of Paul – voice, alto saxophone, clarinet, guitar, percussion, Yoni Silver – bass clarinet, and Otto Willberg – double bass. The ten tracks on Ray…
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Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday
On the first Friday of every month from midnight to midnight Pacific time Bandcamp supports artists by waiving its revenue share on all sales. If you plan to buy something on Bandcamp, tomorrow would be a good choice. Here are some recommendations: I wrote about Maja S.K. Ratkje’s COVID-performance for TUSK festival 2020 in a…
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Current Listening
Maja S. K. Ratkje: Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020 This year’s TUSK festival took place online due to corona. The events of the festival have been streaming twice, once in the evening and secondly in the following morning. There was one performance I listened twice and even tried to record the second stream,…
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