September 23rds

9/23/2001

In music, what we need now are challenges, not cultural fluff.

[9/23/2025: Immediately after 9/11 people were re-thinking their lives, as we did post-COVID. It’s as if they were clues to the next move. But we can go wrong if we change direction just because everyone is doing the wave. In 2001, I personally didn’t change direction as if turning over a new leaf. Metamodernism was just beginning to be discussed].

9/23/2017

Jimi Hendrix didn’t operate at the level of skill. His contribution to the instrument was more driven by the time in which he lived, and the extra-musical sounds that the instrument could make. Perhaps if he had lived, future albums may have focused more on musicianship, but given his popularity, would he have pursued it for the sake of the art form? Perhaps.            

[9/23/2025: Knowing when to use skill is a skill]

9/23/2019            

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9/23/2024

If we intimately know how something works, is it more scientific or is it more artistic? When we say something is “intimate” it means it’s something more connected to the heart than it is to the mind. If a musician knows music theory thoroughly does that mean that they’re not as good an artist as they could be? This is why there’s a fear of music theory because there’s this feeling that it’s going to take the magic out of something. So if you study science you are eliminating the magical qualities in life, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true. All human beings have the same Umwelt, and there are certain things that we can’t sense collectively. It is in those things that we can’t sense where the magic lies.