As a guitar player who loves some jazz, I am sad that jazz guitar is mainly bad. Breezin‘? More like cheesin’! OMG funny. Even the absolute best jazz players are 80% weak. Wes Montgomery’s recordings are mainly easy listening. Pat Metheny is unacceptable at all times. John Scofield? Dude. I have listened closely to all…

My most recent Disquiet piece is part of a really good dance production in Armenia. The whole piece is worth a watch, but my part comes in at 9:42 (and again over the closing). It makes me happy to become part of a thriving creative flow – not just the choreographer Ida Manserian, but also…

Q-Burns Abstract Message interviewed The Children… on his blog. I’m struck by the way he used a personal blog for publishing something valuable to the world. The band is new but notable because of the predecessor bands, which were important in the pre-grunge postpunk world. I like the band’s instrumentals but didn’t dig the singing.…

One reason this blog is such a solitary experience is that blogs are dead. Things aren’t aggregated from scattered sources, they are published within a distribution site. I don’t like it, but can’t do anything about it short of creating an aggregator, which would be a tech project that took me away from music.

By a Mr. Niklas Lukassen

While I’m writing a series of posts about how I can make my music less self-serving, I need to ask how I can make this blog less self-serving. I think people land here and immediately read it as something akin to a friend’s flyer for their own show. It’s an ad for their self-serving creative…

David Michael Curry solo viola on Soundcloud

What is my music FOR? How can I make a contribution? One answer is balm. Solace. Painkiller. Healing. Dreams heal too. You have a bad experience, or you’re afraid of something, and your dream reflects it in a way that lets you process. Music is not just metaphorically similar to dreaming, it works the same…

Ask yourself what is your music for. There is plenty already. Why make more? What is the good reason to exist? Why disturb the silence? What makes it better than ambient sound? Commit to making a contribution to the world.

As part of the practice behind Hélène Vogelsinger’s modular synthesizer compositions, she explores abandoned places, connecting with their energies to create immersive moments. For her Patch Notes performance, she serendipitously stumbled across an abandoned castle in the French countryside.