Thanks to Composer’s Circle sharing me on the day’s feature, I thought I’d write a bit about no hipster hats.

This is my first project/prototype in the way of variable-length electronic landscapes. The piece functions by giving the player the freedom to progress through the music via advancing through a long series of “stopping points” constructed inside the music’s infrastructure. At any given point in the music, the performer can stop, decide, “I like the groove here, I think I’ll hang out here for 2 minutes,” and make it so. Or, “I’m not feeling this spot here as much as yesterday; I’ll only spend half the time I spent here last performance,” and make that so as well. Some places are a little more strict in how they must be played through, but assembling the score with multiple sorts of notation systems interwoven with each other. It’s still very much a prototype, which makes it exciting, because I already like where it’s heading and there’s so much more to do.
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From my friend Musicuratum across the pond in Amsterdam comes an early review of KuuMA‘s debut LP, becoming the moon, and thus breaking the news of a new Sight/Sound project.  KuuMA is the moniker of a musician in Kyuushuu whom I first got to know during a semester at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. The album is lushly dense, and as Musicuratum says, “it seems to ask of us a rather different kind of auditory absorption”, and this is the reason I’m bringing this to the Sight/Sound circle.  We’ll be bringing out more details about KuuMA’s first album in the coming weeks, but for now, have a listen…

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