abstraaktions album
just uploaded an ‘album’ of eight of my most ecstatically noise-ful electronic kreationen:
enjoy. :-)
(d)Evolution?
i feel i’ve reached a kind of post-literate stage musically. here’s the ‘form’ of my (d)evolution:
pre-literacy - up until ~18 - made music without understanding its theoretical underpinnings
transition - 18-22? - learned the theory (classical and avant garde)
literacy - 22-30? - celebrated/embodied the theory in the music i made
transition - 30-45? - un-learned the theory: pulled it apart, modified it, rejected it
post-literacy - 45-now - revelling in (quasi-naive) freedom from rules/stricture
a couple of notes on living the ‘post-literate’ musical life. first, it’s like having come full circle(ish) … i’m back to fumbling/groping my way to creating a piece, relying deeply on intuition, seeing only as far as my headlights illumine (in an often foggy night). second, the music i create these days can sound, to the uninitiated, like random noise making. there’s no (obvious) beat, melody, chordal structure, etc. so the work often falls on deaf(ish) ears … and, to the extent that i compose to communicate with other humans (a significant extent), this makes me sad. i think this sorrow is an inevitable (and quite beautiful) part of what happens when you truly begin to break free from the known.
thwarting time’s arrow
it seems to me that music is a way to “thwart time’s arrow” … to transcend its one-way-ness (always moving towards the future) and experience a state in which past, present, and future co-exist and interpenetrate. an everything-at-once-ness. in this sense, music, like imagination, can get around the “inviolable” laws of physics/reality.
perhaps this is a way to time travel? not on the physical plane, but through projection of consciousness into the future, the past.
whom?
for whom do you create music?
an audience, real or imagined? yourself? or do you just create … without caring about the whom?
sometimes i create pieces for a real/specific audience: a person (runagate) or group (ooTray). sometimes for an imagined/general audience (lovers of experimental electronica). sometimes for myself, without feeling the desire/need to share the results with anyone.
often these days i make pieces for MUSIC itself: MUSIC as passionate audience, colleague, friend.
urQuelle
und here we go … ;-)