February 17ths
2/17/1998
“The virtue of abstract models is that they enable us to keep an enormous amount in mind while paying attention to a minimum of detail.” (Jerome Bruner, Actual Minds, Possible Worlds). This translates to music as follows: the virtue of well-wrought forms is that they enable us to keep _____.” This also reminds me of polyrhythmic African music, where we’re playing a simple repeating line that contributes to the intricate layered gestalt of rhythmic figures. [Explore]
2/17/1999
The web is the medium by which people can offer things outside the mainstream, a way of giving people a fix for their dreams. The medium is the message.
The web is the medium by which people can offer things outside the mainstream, a way of giving people a fix for their dreams. The medium is the message.
2/17/2021
Part of the reason that I've gone back to doing music is that it doesn't make objects. I see music as being “plans”. As I've said before, once I have something written down in a lead sheet or in a score, I see that as a finished piece, even if I haven't tracked it. It's one of the reasons I’ve become “neoclassical”, writing music manually. The tracking process starts with the score, not with the tracking process itself. It’s songwriting via orchestration.
2/17/2024
Aging gets defined by every age, so we are in a weird time now with aging boomers who are still playing the music that they played when they were in their 20s...like me. At what point does it become too old and how do we define what’s new? It’s a difficult question. You would think that the logical thing for an aging prog rocker to do would be just to play acoustic music. Actually, that’s what Richie Blackmore seems to be doing these days. What concerns me most is that if I’m going to do something, is it something I can get absorbed in? If you can answer that question positively, and if you still want to create the music that you made in your 20s in your 70s, then I think that’s okay. The point is that you have to feel that it’s meaningful and that you enjoy the process. I think generally in postmodernism we’re doing things for culture; we’re not doing things just because we like to do them. In postmodernism we have to have the YouTube channel, where you have to get as many followers as possible and get as many likes as possible, but do you enjoy doing that and could you do that into your 70s and 80s? I don’t think so. It seems to me that the natural progression of things is to do things that are slower, but if you’re doing things slow, and you’re not enjoying them, then that doesn’t make sense either. So as we get older we have to choose our projects wisely. #riff
Aging gets defined by every age, so we are in a weird time now with aging boomers who are still playing the music that they played when they were in their 20s...like me. At what point does it become too old and how do we define what’s new? It’s a difficult question. You would think that the logical thing for an aging prog rocker to do would be just to play acoustic music. Actually, that’s what Richie Blackmore seems to be doing these days. What concerns me most is that if I’m going to do something, is it something I can get absorbed in? If you can answer that question positively, and if you still want to create the music that you made in your 20s in your 70s, then I think that’s okay. The point is that you have to feel that it’s meaningful and that you enjoy the process. I think generally in postmodernism we’re doing things for culture; we’re not doing things just because we like to do them. In postmodernism we have to have the YouTube channel, where you have to get as many followers as possible and get as many likes as possible, but do you enjoy doing that and could you do that into your 70s and 80s? I don’t think so. It seems to me that the natural progression of things is to do things that are slower, but if you’re doing things slow, and you’re not enjoying them, then that doesn’t make sense either. So as we get older we have to choose our projects wisely. #riff
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