Days of a Bag No. 6 by Jens Knigge.
More about the stunning cover image of it’s nothing, but still by German photographer Jens Knigge.
Thinking (and feeling) about experimental music.
I got together for drinks with Patricia Jäggi and Christoph Brünggel* yesterday afternoon at Stazione Paradiso on the banks of the Limmat river in Zürich.
The potential of everyday sounds.
Some thoughts on the field recordings woven throughout it’s nothing, but still.
ground glass.
In early 2013, Foxes In Fiction & Benoît Pioulard released a 7” on Wool Recordings.
What’s happening around what’s happening.
I learned a lot about composition while recording this album, most of which came about as a direct result of weekly Skype sessions with Siavash Amini.
The Skype call and the sun and the cracking sound.
Sitting in the low-slung rattan chair that we got just after arriving in Zürich, the spring sun was streaming in through the balcony door.
I remember running track in high school.
I could hold my own in the 100 meters, at least against most Iowa boys.
Epiphanies.
We sat in the darkness, surrounded by the wood beams and dust of the industrial attic in Zürich-West.
Chris Cerrone’s “Hoyt-Schermerhorn” performed by Vicky Chow.
I love the use of the granular synth effect at the end.
Heart like a hole.
It was a typical, sunny spring morning in Zürich. Awakened by the buzzing on my night table, I grabbed my phone and held it up, tracing the familiar pattern on the screen. And then it dropped. Right on my face.
Arvo Pärt’s “Fratres” performed by Anne Akiko Meyers.
Stunning performance of one of my favorite Arvo Pärt pieces by Anne Akiko Meyers, and one of my cello improvisations.
