August 9ths
February 9ths A piece made from two Beatles titles. 8/9/1968, Friday (Beatles Studio Diary) Studio Two: “Not Guilty” and “Mother Nature’s Son” (White Album) 8/9/1997, Saturday Albums should arise out of your current circumstances, where the world is, internal feelings, a conflation of variables, of looking back to see why something worked or didn’t work. [8/9/2025: The pandemic was a shift for me, from postmodernist and conceptual work to more traditional work–my attempt at being metamodern or “remodern”, blending modernism and postmodernism. I still love postmodern approaches because it’s as foundational as traditional approaches. The “Sum” series is all about that]. 8/9/2001 Strategy: make very dense music at the macro level and add micro treatments, such that minor details of music are detected at the periphery but not central to the idea. The listener “expects” to hear things and the compos...
