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abstraaktions album

rachmiel — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:15:33 +0000

just uploaded an ‘album’ of eight of my most ecstatically noise-ful electronic kreationen:

abstraaktions

enjoy. :-)

(d)Evolution?

rachmiel — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:48:22 +0000

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

rachmiel — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:51:00 +0000

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?

rachmiel — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:14:51 +0000

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

rachmiel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:26:21 +0000

und here we go … ;-)