i’m kinda getting out of modular, really. or analog stuff in general. it’s for happy reasons though.
reasons: mainly authenticity: 1) taking what most interests me and re-centering on it, not just alluding to it, which means taking ownership of the situation into which I’ve been thrown. 2) [the concrete manifestation of #1] more deeply grounding myself and my work in specific communities, folk cultures… ones in which music has perhaps been largely unthought, but ones through which the idea of the future may be possible again. what i do is really only meaningful in the sense of being existentially rooted. We make the equipment meaningful in how we use it to tell our stories. Stories through which we express most fundamentally who we are. For me, the music is not meaningful solely on the basis of equipment or abstract/formal properties.
in other words, “just music” doesn’t cut it for me anymore. a more difficult road lies ahead, in that the new direction may not be immediately understood. i barely understand it myself sometimes. Nonetheless, the past and present give me more than enough resources upon which to draw. The building blocks exist, and I’m ready to build. The first thing to build is a bridge. Hence – happy reasons, not discouragement at all.
