“We believe that the unconscious is not a theater, but a factory.” — Deleuze
living dream machinery
March 7, 2010minimalism
March 6, 2010we went to the redcat theatre at the disney concert hall last night
steve roden performed a very innovative and refreshing minimalist set
exercising tasteful and well executed tonal sensibilities
alongside relevant video loops which added sonic insights
meditative states
March 5, 2010meditative states: angeles crest
March 4, 2010again, exquisite field recordings offered up from Aaron
hiking through the Angeles crest, snow underfoot, hitting “record”
much obliged
subterranean water
March 2, 2010my friend Aaron sent me a recording of subterranean water
the audio sample is a natural generative rhythm
the short version below features a flux tempo derived from breathing patterns
nomad space & sedentary space
February 28, 2010from within the Musical Model:
…”in a smooth space-time one occupies without counting, whereas in striated space-time one counts in order to occupy.”
— Deleuze (referencing Boulez)
This reminds me that despite all music existing within a forced time dimension, we can find liberation from the choke hold of mechanical rhythms, and rely on the familiar: natural, internal improvisational time signature; likened to our own distinct breathing pattern
of pluralism & relativity
February 27, 2010there is a gradient between absolute dark and nuclear white
the two exist together on the same plain of illumination
they require the other, necessitate the other, fluctuate between themselves
any point of light may at one time become either/or










