#musicwriting

[newleasemusic]

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Album artwork for Elflike

Art done by @louisexpearce13 https://www.instagram.com/can_this_be_life/p/ButdqvAg5sZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2dvyyzo1vmr6

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[halfunusual]

Stepping in the Same Loop Twice?

There’s something really deceptive about loops.They promise repetition. Return. The same thing, over and over. Guaranteed.But of course, the

Loops, loop-based music, grewve, and the Jamune experience proving Heraclitus right: nothing repeats exactly. Read the blog on the halF unusuaL website ...

[changethelausd]

New article: A Prayer for My Country

Sometimes a concert becomes something more than a concert.

What I expected to be a bucket-list Bruce Springsteen show in Brooklyn turned into a reflection on patriotism, community, and hope in a deeply divided America. This essay explores why Springsteen's music still resonates—and why I left the arena feeling more optimistic than when I arrived.

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A Prayer for My Country

A night with Bruce Springsteen became a reflection on patriotism, community, and hope in divided times.

[changethelausd]

When a Rock Concert Feels Like Church

I recently went to see Ghost after hearing for years about the reputation of their live shows.

What I found wasn’t just a concert. It felt like a congregation — costumes, ritual, and thousands of fans singing together like a Sunday service for the musically devoted.

Even though their recorded music never fully clicked for me, seeing the band live helped me understand the connection their fans feel and why the atmosphere at their shows can feel almost spiritual.

That’s a church even an atheist can appreciate.

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The Night Ghost Turned an Arena Into a Church

I came for the spectacle. I stayed for the joy, the belonging, and the faux‑Pope who brought an arena together.

[pushingthewave]

Mozart and the birth of romantic introspection

How Mozart shaped a century of quiet musical introspection—from Beethoven and Mendelssohn to Debussy’s radical new language of atmosphere.

I listened again the other night to the Andante from Mozart’s Sonata for Piano Duet in F major, K.497 — and something unexpected happened.

Instead of being carried back into the refined world of the late eighteenth century, I found myself hearing the nineteenth: Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, even Fauré waiting quietly in the wings.

That single movement seems to sketch the template for a century of musical introspection — the kind of inward, singing line that Romantic composers returned to again and again.

In a new essay I explore that thread from Mozart to Debussy, and how Debussy eventually rewrote the language of musical intimacy altogether.

New column on Pushing the Wave.

[integratelier]

Music is science.

…or math.

Dulu pas lagi nyari-nyari info tentang Ling Tosite Sigure (gegara Psycho-Pass tentu saja), saya nemu istilah math rock. Jadi katanya itu subgenre rock yang penuh dengan perhitungan 🤔. Now, I’m no musician and my music theory comprehension is only as far as what notes are on which line with treble clef… dan itu pun ga hafal haha… anyway.

Beberapa tahun yang lalu, pas saya lagi suka banget nge-band, I dabbled with GuitarPro. Ngompos lagu gitu. Dan approach saya terhadap kegiatan ini adalah matematika (atau lebih tepatnya aritmetika mungkin ya?). Jadi misal saya bikin dengan birama 4/4, saya itungin tuh udah ada not berapa aja dalam satu bar. Ada 1/4, ada 1/8 pake titik, ada triol… Trus dasar ritme saya emang ngaco, pas saya mainin di gitar saya dan pas saya play di GuitarPro kok lain… trus kan si GuitarPro warna bar-nya merah gitu kalo kita naro terlalu banyak atau terlalu sedikit measure (?) di dalamnya. Jadilah kudu dihitung ulang. (studi sistem digital membantu banget deh, karena measure dalam musik itu basis dua 😂).

Contoh lainnya adalah katanya yang harmoninya enak itu interval third dan fifth. Jadi kalo misal kord Am, saya taro basnya A, satu instrumen misalnya C, satu instrumen lagi E. Atau di-inverse susunannya. Trus selama satu kord itu, accompaniment-nya ya A-C-E-A-C-E aja gitu terus.