Month: June 2020

Of the three ways of composing music: ‘A third way has developed in recording studios, which is similar to the way artists work in their studios to make paintings. Music can be built up layer by layer on recording tape, not to give a performance or to write music, but to appear on a record‘ (John Cage, Conversing with John…

Saturday, June 27. WFH: DAY 78. All day, I sifted through files recovered from my C-Drive in search of the lost ones associated with (or, rather, now, disassociated from) from two compositional session folders. Mercifully, I’d found a complete mixdown of the first composition. It would, at the very least, provide me with an aural template for reconstructing a second…

WFH: DAY 73. 8.30 am: A communion. 9.00 am: I looked once more at the final paragraph of the writing, while searching for information on how musicians play together in lockdown. (In the background: John McLaughlin, Cindy Blackman Santana, and Carlos Santana’s Quarantine Blues — which was made under these conditions. Wonderful!) (Oh! And happy birthday Carlos, too!) Of course,…