Gravity

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It conjures up different ideas, that. Burial in the ground, keeping things from floating away or spinning off, overwhelming size, serious business, orbit-shaping, force of attraction, pull, bending light, intensity of character, aura, fundamental.

These notions came up in a conversation about gravity that I was a party to. A question that was posed at the end and never answered was how to use or create gravity in music? That question has been on my mind a bit lately. I came up with some basic ideas about how one might incorporate gravitational concepts in music. Technically, the circling around of a sound in the auditory space would function as though you are being orbited by a sonic element. If recording, you would want to use the correct microphone and could walk around or spin the microphone. It could be accomplished with panning and frequency adustments over time. Deep and bulbous bass sounds might invoke a sense of overwhelming size. A series of chords that do not resolve create tension perhaps that of being suspended between two entities.

tags: content, Wortbergwerkung

Wortbergwerkung Translates from German as wordmining. I like this concept. It feeds the poet inside. Creates fields to sew and dreams of future harvest. I’ll use this as a tag for exploring and returning. The harder and deeper I peer, the more I discover that I do not understand.