FundamentallySound Blog

A non-ordered, aphoristic list of recent things I've thought about, some more than others:

-Poverty (and how to dress accordingly)
-Tickets to Paris
-Mondriaan's plastic concept of visual aesthetics, and his ideas about music made from 'static sound': "produced by electric, magnetic, and mechanic (i.e. automatic) devices to avoid undesirable alterations based on individual, subjective and interpretational preference." see--> Dick Raaijmakers' A Brief morphology of Electric Sound
-I am not nor will I ever be an inventor (of musical devices), I only want to be a composer (one who organizes sounds, from an infinite selection). This is different than being a curator, as a curator is one who chooses what is best from a pre-determined subject area. And it also differs from a collector: one that gives no thought to the value of that which he obtains, but is only able to complete the act of obtaining.
-Trying to figure out what to do when someone asks you to rework a piece of musical material for them (should I make what they want to hear, or what I want to hear?)
-I can't be a student anymore (unless it's at DasArts).
-Tired of playing music in venues where more thought is given to the political and social ramifications of the event rather than the sound itself. How do I find an audience?
-Poor Spalding Gray.
-Momus has the most consistently interesting and challenging weblog that I know of. I think a physical book, made of paper, of his selected essays would be a welcome addition in the world.
-The musics of Webern and Satie seem to have more in common than I previously thought. They're both so delicate.