Chris McGrath's listening history
Sometimes magic happens. Sometimes it even happens to me.
Open D tuning (low to high D A D G A D). Just a practice session where I had the guts to press record.
No drugs. Just beer with dinner. Maybe they put something in the creme brule…
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it is midnight of halloween. it blinks 12 at the landfill. the electric blue light awakens the dying electronics. a cracked blackberry dances slowly with an unrecognized newton, palm to palm. woofers gather around the hammond organ to boost the…
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it is icy. it moves. it is glacially inevitable. the listener may percieve tension. a desire to break free. a wish to increase velocity. it is impossible. it will proceed at its own pace. relax.
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it is zajjy and offbeat. it is almost a tao of tonality. it is dizzy. it is not gillespie. do not follow its path too closely. it knows not its destination. generative music.
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it is perhaps of Oriental origins. however, the pentatonic music becomes dysfunctional as it begins to fixate on two notes. it is almost humorous. it was considered a failed experiment. however, it is retrieved from the waste bin, as version 0x01…
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it is a winter blanket of snow. it smothers life. it attempts to silence all sound. however, small ghosts of music escape. they always find each other. every winter they dance together. they are the notes of christmas past. 0x0
hw: quicksilver…
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it is a piece in threes. it is said that good things come in threes. it is in 3/4. it has three sections. it has three notes.
the 3 note sequence was generated, repeated, overlayed, slower and faster in software. it is a small piece. it comes…
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It is created between the cracks. it is amplified. if you listen, you feel the space between time. it is created in a life without time. caught in a shadow of light. nothing can exist here. but this does. it is beautiful. it is ephemeral. it is gone.
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it is an attempt to create a circle in music. it is difficult to create more than 5 circles. it is not olympics. it is a short sprint. does it win your ear?
Hardware: quicksilver
Software: innumerable subroutines
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this is a new recording of "Sequence", version 3. it now adds a shakuhachi. it is a kind of japanese bamboo flute. this is music generated automatically by computer. shakuhachi is sampled instrument by computer, it is not played by human.
east…
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