Archive for October, 2009

Sometimes it is difficult for me to listen to anything over the roaring din of input from the body.

Last week in NYC, I had one night to meet with friends, so I contacted Adam Wills to see if he was free. What followed was a vague yet positive string of text messages, and I headed to the subway in Manhattan and tried to get to Brooklyn. I had no idea where [...]

Sometime around the early 2000s, I flew to a small town in Virginia to record in a cabin with Fred Weaver. The whole scene there was very rustic; the cabin being miles from town accessible by dirt road and housed on the property of a larger southern plantation. The night I arrived, Fred took [...]

Kate Mytty passed me a great article from the New York Times today that talked about how the human brain seeks out and finds patterns, or when none are seemingly available, works harder to create an understanding. This occurrence, it’s then assumed, could be used in education, and studies have actually been conducted to [...]

Some music gets listened to in high concentration, by large groups of people, for a limited time. The impact is profound, yet doesn’t have any sustaining power for the people who made it. Lots of money is exchanged for various reasons, and then the metaphorical torch gets passed. The artist(s) enter a mass, [...]

The Physical Changes video left the New York Film Festival last week and is off this week to Tokyo, Japan, where it will appear as part of the “Image & Sound Eternity” program at Bakuon. Full details can be found here.

I began studying guitar when I was about six years old. After awhile, I switched to piano, which didn’t last too long. Both circumstances presented strange challenges to me. After a brief time of having a guitar before I started lessons, I saw the guitar as a sound making device, and though [...]

Our good friend Michi Saigo at the Contrarede label (who are releasing “Unmap” in Japan) did this video for the track “Islands, IS.” Michi also did a video for the Collections of Colonies of Bees’ song “Flocks II” last year. He worked with the music in a really interesting way, that fits the subtlety [...]