July 29ths

7/29/2009

On alternate tunings: When you play in strange tunings over long periods, standard tuning becomes strange, and seems new again when you come back to it. The notion of something being ‘standard’ implies that it was once abandoned and returned to with a new perspective. It reminds me of something Brian Eno once said about going to an extreme then retreating to a more traditional approach. That’s the payoff of experimentation.

7/29/2020            

Finished Phases, a series of color systems whereby a color sequence is mapped across a shape sequence, e.g. mapping 5 colors across 6 shapes across 5 objects. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The musical equivalent is the polyrhythm such as 2 against 3 or 3 against 4, or isomelodies and isorhythms].    

Black-out lyric and the rhythms in the words: 

7/29/2023

 

 

  

7/29/2024