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THE SOUND OF ONE CHORD VOCALIZING

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My own origins include a description of my own musicality. My relationship to music does not pertain to the body, but to the mind. I will think through - not feel through - the compositional possibilities of music as knowledge. I have a proficiency with guitar and drums, but have little interest in composing for specific instruments perhaps. A taxonomy of instrumentation, a hierarchy (or heteroarchy) of textures, timbres, tones, rhythms. An OMNICHORD or metachord, narrating through the tonal narrativity, to give characterizations to frequency frames. Remember: organum and plainchant: choir forms from the Middle Ages, a form of heterophony. A single voice supported by others, and the socio-political implications of this form. The audience and the architecture house the music - in the wild, it is let loose. Music must be contained, is given definition by its container, it is the frame which allows it to be distinguished from the world, to be heard.