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  • SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS update week 3

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    The organ as the world’s first additive synthesizer, the rhythmic grid underlying all human cognition, and the link between Dub Reggae and Stockhausen. Daniel Williams, ladies and gentlemen. All of the above soon to be heard discussed in the podcast. Can’t wait.

  • SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS update week 2

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    Almost a week since I spoke with double bassist and improviser Adam Goodwin, which proved rich and insightful as always. I then sat down with composer Stepha Schweiger the following day and didn’t regret it. Finding it difficult to put all these conversations into a few sentences so just check out these special artists’ stuff!…

  • SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS more update week 1

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    Fascinating get together with Audrey Chen yesterday. Marathons, Conservatoires, entering new realms outside the spatio-temporal flux through improvisation… the usual. I experimented with a new set up involving some black cloth on the walls and low-level lighting… certainly set the ambiance. More soon. www.audreychen.com

  • SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS update week 1

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    Delighted yesterday to have the first interview here in Berlin with improvisation guitarist, cellist and composer Hannes Buder. We focused on memories and their relation to sound, and the different paths you can take to get to this kind of experimental music which always seems to have an effect on people – how positive or…

  • SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS update

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    So during my time in London I met up with a couple musicians and started getting the interview process underway. I had the pleasure of wiling away some hours talking with LCMF co-founder Sam Mackay about musicology and experimental music in France and Britain, then it was with Benedict Taylor that we discussed our Classical…

  • SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS

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    I’m starting a blog based on writings by my late father as part of the Substructured Loss grief and bereavement research residency in Berlin. This is a project dealing with music’s power over emotions. Before his death, my father had started writing philosophical texts on music in which music’s power to recall memories and incite…