May
9th
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9th
2012
Linear A.
Ancient language, lost to the modern day. Largely undecipherable.
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Posts tagged "making music"
Apr
25th
Wed
25th
2012
If I were a furniture builder or something, you’d probably ask why I made so many tables.
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We’re just always writing songs and don’t really know why, other than—again, it’s what we do.
Apr
17th
Tue
17th
2012
We didn’t want to pick up guitars and write chord sequences. We didn’t want to sit in front of a computer either. We wanted a third thing, which involved playing and programming… I was never happier than when I was in my bedroom as a kid, working on rubbishy computer games.
— Jonny Greenwood
It’s a meditative state, like standing in the tube station when the train is coming through. Things go past you - trains, people.
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Thom Yorke, on singing
“This idea - where will the band be in five years? Fuck that. I’m just looking for little diamonds in the dust.”
Mar
27th
Tue
27th
2012
Dec
17th
Sat
17th
2011
“You know how other people’ll be like, “Well I’m gonna do opera!” You know what I’m saying? I was like, oh forget that! I’mma go ahead and do this house, cause it’s making the money.”
- DJ Funk, Nasty Ghetto House Producer
Dec
13th
Tue
13th
2011
life is short. sometimes things you think are gonna last forever don’t, and some things you aren’t sure about end up lasting. what have we discovered? that things are not always hard, and remembering what we really wanted and who we really are means very simple things. for me, it is that i love music to no end, and i love to hear carl play the guitar more than just about anything else in this world. i play to hear him play. it’s that simple.
together we have a world no one else really knows. we often do not even need to speak - we just know. we joke about how we share one brain. of course, that means when one of is stressed, the other cannot help but be affected. we find ways to balance this - and most of the time it really works. yeah, we have had bumps in the road, and on occasion it seems as if we may never recover from these bumps, but we do.
so now it’s three years later, three years since the last record. we are still together, and we are still very much in love. we found a way to get back to all the things that really matter, and of course, at the heart of it all, is music. making music. creating this other world.
this new record - it started in 2009 with a series of recordings carl had under taken. i had a solo record - our close friends told carl to make a solo record. he recorded, on and off, for maybe 18 months. all by himself, and amassed a wonderful inventory of tracks to work with. then valentines day 2011 was coming, and his gift to me was this cd of tracks he had done, all alone, and a lot of them new, just for me. i loved them, all of them. i played them all day every day for months. carl told me it was music just for me, and no one else would ever hear it.
you imagine your very favorite guitar player in the world making music just for you. just for you. think of how wonderful that would feel. if carl really did not want anyone else to hear it, so be it. i had new music just for me, and i was overjoyed.
Nov
19th
Sat
19th
2011
- GIBSON: I had a very limited tool kit when I began writing. I didn’t know how to handle transitions, so I used abrupt breaks, the literary equivalent of jump cuts. I didn’t have any sense of how to pace anything. But I had read and admired Ballard and Burroughs, and I thought of them as very powerful effect pedals. You get to a certain place in the story and you just step on the Ballard.
- INTERVIEWER: What was the effect?
- GIBSON: A more genuine kind of future shock. I wanted the reader to feel constantly somewhat disoriented and in a foreign place, because I assumed that to be the highest pleasure in reading stories set in imaginary futures.
Nov
17th
Thu
17th
2011
10 Reasons why Dead Man is the best movie of the end of the 20th century
Fun list by Greil Marcus from 1999. Includes a bonus list, “Ten reasons why Neil Young’s “Dead Man” is the best music for the dog days of the 20th century.” I love this movie and the soundtrack so much—finally got to see it in 35mm last year.
Speaking of the soundtrack, here’s a great post: Jim Jarmusch: The Art of the Music in His Films
For the surreal 1995 western Dead Man (sampled in the montage above) Jarmusch enlisted Neil Young to compose and perform the soundtrack. “To me,” Young is quoted as saying at the outset of the project by Jonathan Rosenbaum in his BFI Modern Classics book on the film, “the movie is my rhythm section and I will add a melody to that.” Young recorded his minimalist score, much of it improvised, in a large warehouse in San Francisco while watching a rough cut of the film. Young played all the instruments: electric and acoustic guitars, pump organ and a detuned piano.
9. Because the music doesn’t translate, it doesn’t refer. Each time it plays it creates a new frame of reference. Because of that, you can play it forever. Put it on at 11 p.m. on Dec. 31 (the record lasts just over an hour) and when everything changes you won’t even notice.(Previously.)
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