Hypermeaning
One of the issues I've been dealing with in my practice is the production of spiritual meaning while neither resorting to religion nor...
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- Oct 5, 2022
- 1 min
Providence vs Contingency
My ear and the machine are acting up. The ear, weary after partial hearing loss years ago; the potentiometers, weary after years of use....
- Sep 4, 2022
- 1 min
Graindelavoix in Utrecht
The sound crawls and clambers. It graces with weight the unlit suspended air. And then it flurries, scatters, disseminates. Only to...
- Feb 14, 2022
- 1 min
You ass, why do you add ornamentation?
An entertaining story about Josquin Despres, the famous Franco-Flemish composer of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, who by his...
- Feb 13, 2022
- 2 min
Early music as a monad
In Time Regained I came across a quotation from Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History, a critique of, among other things, objective...
- Feb 11, 2022
- 2 min
Unpredictable universe
Order and chaos, determinism and indeterminism, tectonic and atectonic as formative dichotomies in music history. For generative or...
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