Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The music I play with Xavier is full of false notes and off-beats, the pieces are short and wobbly, without a real beginning and without a proper end, but it is living music, and therefore imperfect; we will never go back to the temptation of mastering everything from A to Z and of building our pieces on sequencers that are nothing but assembling sonic legos. Sequencing as a default mode of composition has destroyed, had destroyed, in us, in me, any spontaneity, any ability to improvise, to go with the bluff, to include mistakes and accidents. The music we've been making since 2017 is messy, but it's better than most of what I've been able to do alone in front of Fruity Loops since the year 2000.

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