"... the collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event."
---Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition
Lately, all this hype about minimalism has gotten to be such a bore. Let's talk about maximalism. Iannis Xenakis' bird swarms and hail storms alongside Dave Lombardo's blast beats and double kicks... Right now, in this moment, I want to make sounds from these kind of ingredients, as live as possible, and not to justify anything with cheap intellectualization. Only to be overwhelmed by raw energy and unfathomable complexity. Nothing more, nothing less.
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