Saturday, August 16, 2014

Ear, Brain, Sound, Being

Failure to experience and develop the contemplative spirit is, in point of fact, debilitating.


Contemplation and reflection nurture the imagination, clarify ideas and emotional states, reinforce analytic thought and strengthen independent will.

For music to lend its force to such essential conditions of consciousness, it must be composed and produced in ways that focus on the arrangement of those elements of sound that contribute most to immersive, atmospheric environments, within which the mind is as liberated as the physical body can be while dancing or engaged in athletic activity.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Dynamism

The shadow absorbs in stillness, the fire illuminates in motion.


Certainly there must be impetus to create.  But there must be vision and the application of reason, will, and force.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Murmur and Thunder

Observe simplicity expressed in ways grand and ethereal.


The greatest of things are of the most direct and uncomplicated clarity.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Appearances As They Are

Expression, ranging from the legitimate and real to the specious and fraudulent, makes and leaves impressions on the senses, mind, and emotions.


Just as judgement is false if not based upon facts, so the sound of the authentic experience must have a foundation in the genuine, that is to say, in viable settings or environments, rather than in contrived and spurious ones.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

The Searching Ear

Stillness is external and internal, in the nature of living atmosphere and of being.


Observant, listening and hearing impressions great and minute, ordering and analyzing the mundane, the fantastic, and the curious: perceive surroundings, shades of meaning, and attitudes of mind.

Monday, August 11, 2014

Timeflow

What is heard:  the essentials for human functioning, then the media.


What is missed:  the subtle, the environmental, the aesthetically pleasing, the elevated, the uncanny; virtually anything outside the realm of the self-centered.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Fusion

In rich combinations of sound, separate elements sustain their distinctive qualities in relation to each other.


This occurs within the naturally developing atmosphere of any setting, without interference, according to probabilities and happenstance.  The composer, following this model, initiates a blending of tones, patterns, and the like, contributing such modifications as enhance the aesthetic properties of the work.

From my perspective, the less the designer intervenes, the more the "organic" atmospheric qualities of the ambient composition are enhanced.