The Grooved Whale Project

I wonder if we’ll ever discover the overall code for human music – one massive algorithm that would allow us to press a button and presto! a new song pops up. While I’ve seen many attempts at creating this code, most fail miserably imho, either creating stuff too out there or too boring for consumption.

What I’ve been paying attention to lately are the transition zones in pieces I compose- areas where the beauty/groove no longer reigns and the song becomes seemingly less musical. Hold this transition for too long and you lose the listener.   Forget to put a transition zone in and the song fails to progress.

The trick for me is to create these transition zones in a live setting, where loops and layers have already been established. I love the freedom electronic gear ultimately gives me but sometimes the constraints are annoying. I miss the freedom of creating with just my violin, where my whim is at my fingertips.  Ahh well, it wouldn’t be an exciting world without challenges, would it?