an update

I stopped making regular posts here because I had started to question the purpose of the things that I was writing. I had begun to describe the philosophical approach of my work, but I ended up deleting a few of the posts in which I was doing so. I will return to regular writing on this blog, but I will do so cautiously. I became wary of the possibility that I was trying to use verbal description as a crutch to help somebody understand my work. I should not do that. I will write here when I think that the ideas are interesting in themselves, but I will avoid explaining my work. If someone listens to any of my music and does not understand it or just thinks that it's bad, then that is my fault.

With that said, my future updates here will be delayed for a while. My job in the "real world" will have me away and constantly busy for the next two months, so I will resume my activities here when I return from that. As for my music, I'm working on a new piece, but it won't be finished before I leave, so expect that sometime this autumn.

cowgazing

On Sunday I went for a walk. At one point I passed some cows that were in a field along the road. As I walked past them, they all started to follow me. I turned toward them, and I stood facing them while most of them assembled and faced me from about twenty feet away. There were sixteen cows altogether, but they did not form one cohesive group. Eleven of them were in the group closest to me. But there was one group of three that stopped about twenty feet behind them. And there was one cow standing alone off to the left, at least fifty feet from me and from the other cows. I stood still and watched all of them for a while. Maybe twenty minutes. Not one of them moved. Some were eating grass, some were peeing or shitting. They could stand there longer than I.

I want to dig a hole and fill it.

I want to spend a day digging a hole. Then I will fill it with the same dirt.

some people

Some people can't hear anything at all.

overheard

Two coworkers of mine were having a friendly argument about something, I don't know what. The only thing that I heard was one of them saying, "Fuck your point of view!" That sentence seems to have some useful applicability to life in general.

downloads

This isn't everything that I've done, just whatever I feel like making available online. I change the list from time to time, but I'll always have my most recent piece up here. All files are in the flac format.

Such (2009) - 41:11

Slow (2010) - 33:20

World (2010) - 33:49

The Open (2011) - 46:25