This Art is Your Art

‎The genius of “This Land Is Your Land,” perhaps, was that the Depression-inspired protest in the song’s central lyric (“This land is made for you and me”) was subtle, voiced not as a complaint or call to arms but as a positive (yet still socialistic) sentiment of equality and belonging."

–This Art is Your Art

Architect vs. Gardener

I think like many people, I had assumed that music was produced, or created in the way that you imagine symphony composers make music, which is by having a complete idea in their head in every detail and then somehow writing out ways by which other people could reproduce that. In the same way as one imagines an architect working...

A gardener doesn't really work like that...what one is doing is working in collaboration with the complex and unpredictable processes of nature. And trying to insert into that some inputs that will take advantage of those processes."

-Brian Eno

From a talk at Serpentine Gallery on October 16, 2011

Caverns of Gossimar

8-bit music for an imaginary RPG.
Download it here [mp3 192k]

Blok 9

More Sifteo music - this one's a multiplayer strategic puzzle game.

The Music of Harry Partch

1968 San Diego KPBS-TV documentary called The Music of Harry Partch. Partch shows off his instruments and gives a performance of Daphne of the Dunes conducted by Thomas Nee.

"Lack of respect for himself broadens the artist's field of vision..."

Lack of respect for himself broadens the artist's field of vision without completely demagnetizing his compass. It is an undeniable fact that if he questions all his own procedures, he becomes obsessed by the characteristics most foreign to himself, the most difficult to acquire - even the most atrophied."

-Pierre Boulez, Orientations

Moon Marble

Here's a peek at one of the Sifteo games I've been writing music and making sounds for!