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Thursday, 17 June 2004

Rhythmic adventures ::

The piece I’ve been working on for the last three weeks has been going slowly. I’d recently read in a David Torn Electronic Musician interview about how he spends a lot of time creating a bed, all for the purpose of eventually playing over it and capturing early takes. That still seems like a fine approach, but I agonized over that bed. After two and half weeks I had only two and a half minutes of unpolished music! (I guess that shouldn’t surprise me—work’s been intense, preparing two presentations and demos for a conference at the end of the month, and finishing some software.) ...

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