Music and Meaning
I feel like there’s a hole in the way we discuss soundtracks. We talk about using certain instruments or techniques to evoke certain kinds of emotions and associations without ever talking about the specifics of how we do that and…
Category Music
From Spare Parts and Parts Unknown
Over the last year, I wrote a piece of music each month with the intent of collating all of them into an album. Most of these I’ve put up on the blog as I went, generally as a sort of…
Fire, Pressure, and Pain
Some people make art like glass, venting their heat against the earth until it gives way, melts and fuses, and giving it shape through the circumstances of wind and breath that brought it into being. Some people make art like…
Naw
I tried to write something about why I’m not going to write something, but even that turned out to be too much writing. So instead I wrote this. Here’s some music instead of words.
Sizzle
It’s been really hot, I don’t have air conditioning, and I feel like taking a break. Yes, I know this is ironic after last week’s post. My phone tells me it’s supposed to be like 10-20 degrees cooler this time…
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I ran out of time and the work I had wasn’t coming together so no post today. Here’s another compensatory music that I made last month.
Fog and Sound
I’ve been having a hard time thinking this week. This isn’t the real essay. This is a placeholder. The real essay is incomplete, pending a time when I can think, and pay attention, and construct a spine and ribcage to…
EverEnding DevBlog 81: Resyncing
Lots of ups and downs this week. As I got closer and closer to finishing my album (AVAILABLE NOW!) the stress of having such a relatively substantial project mostly complete and yet not quite out there started to really eat…
Songs of the Uncanny Valley
I have made an album. It is entirely instrumental electronic music, largely inspired by video games but not beholden to the formatting constraints I’d worry about if I were actually composing for a game soundtrack. Right now I’m still too…
Technique and Aesthetic
There’s a danger in getting better at things. Well, there are probably several, but I have one in particular in mind right now. As you improve in your chosen field, art or music or writing or whatever, you gain the…