Week in Review #17: Buzz or Hum

I went to Guitar Center this week and looked at guitars. This is funny because for years I have snobbishly insisted that I don't like "guitar music." This is still largely true, and not all music that features guitars is "guitar music," but I know it when I hear it. I was looking at guitars because I am still on my journey for Expressive Musical Performance. My music from this past weekend was I think some of my most sonically interesting yet, even if some of that sonic interest was quite harsh, but I feel like I'm getting more comfortable with exploring timbre at the same time as I'm exploring rhythm and melody. A big lesson from my inspiration for the week was also to let everything breathe. Often I fall into a trap of thinking that I have N synthesizers plugged into my mixer, so I should have N sounds playing at all times. N was very low for this performance (2!) but even more importantly, I stopped myself from just constantly hitting keys. This was also one of the first times I…