by Kurt Knecht | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of my musicology teachers wrote a short post that I got via email the other day. She was imagining a musicologist attempting to contextualize rap in the year 2093. She is a brilliant mind, and I always find her thoughts compelling. Go vistit her...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Having had a day to reflect on the past week, I have one final thought to encourage musicians to practice more improvisation. As a psychological tool, listening back to your improvisations provides a perspecuity on many aspects of yourself. It is piercing and...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
We finished three days of intense recording today. The day began with “Currents”. It’s a sort of new age thing but it’s mostly in 9/8. We had a few takes and moved on to a wild animal of Jonah’s invention that we call “Hanon from...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Every job and almost every task we do requires split second decisions. Even cooking eggs requires choices, but you have certain parameters and rules that need to be followed in order for the final product to be palatable. In many ways, this project is rather...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
It was a long challenging day of recording. We had some fruitful product by the end.We started off with something we call “like a real pop song”. It’s actually something that draws inspiration from the early Sting song “Black Seam”, but...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
As we were recording yesterday, we briefly commented on what a strange experience it was to come into this session. Strange because it was extremely difficult to guage whether we were/are prepared. With such loose structures involved, we usually have to look up some...
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