../melody in chaos
Life imprints sentience on the particles we cede back to the universe upon passing. Death is decentralization, not expiration, of consciousness. Each of our muons and protons and electrons comprises the cumulative wisdom of all that has experienced life before. We are each one, and we are each all.
My friend John Arthur passed on 22 October 2013.…
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Wonderful review of the opening track of transient lines by marc weidenbaum of disquiet.com
…If noise music is ambient music turned up loud, then shoegaze is ambient music with a beat. Not just any beat, mind you, but a beat that emerges from the ebb and flow of the underlying drone, a beat that recognizes the rhythmic content in the flow of the drone and that latches onto it, building a hard lattice that supports the seemingly ethereal initial audio.
an evolving project since 2006.
1: The Psychedelic Furs
2. Neil Young
3. The Sonics
4. The Grateful Dead
5. The Cure
6. Credence Clearwater Revival
7. The Replacements
8. George Harrison
9. Kris Kristofferson
10. The Postal Service
11. Tom Petty
12. Landon Pigg
more to come…
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15 november 2013
prologue: in recollection and amazement |
improvised guitar drones, loops and melody lines over beats.
guitar / amp:
jolie (gibson es-335 dot reissue, peekamoose custom electronics)
vox ac4c1-bl tube combo
efx chain:
(ebow –) earthquaker “warden” compressor –ehx pog2 –ehx freeze –ibanez ts-808 tube screamer –small sound/big sound mini overdrive –tc electronic flashback delay+looper –strymon blue-sky reverberator –line6 pod xt phaser modeler
software / hardware:
sony acid, motu 828mk2, XP
title is reference to jack kerouac’s “list of essentials” in his belief & technique for modern prose:
17.…
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PROCESS
Currently (re)reading:
The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
Illustrated Edition, Paintings by Moebius
First 80 characters on page 99:
“Can’t you just observe men and omens in order to understand the language?” the
There’s a heaviness to Coehlo’s fable that this treatment revealed. I first read it in ’93, when it was first published in English.…
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