Invented Truth

Two thoughts accompany this release of Invented Truth (2024):

“I don’t want to have the terrible limitation of those who live merely from what can make sense. Not I: I want an invented truth.”
- Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

It is impossible fully to calculate the depth of this work’s quietly assuring, recalibrating, beatific effect on my creativity.

I am not a lover of recordings. While they are meaningful as a kind of “photograph” of a real music event, for me the experience of live sound is irreplaceable. But music created within and specifically for a recorded medium using fixed media could be possible. It occurs to me that if one were able truly to express oneself in this way, as a pure, self-sufficient experience, that one’s prior sense of musical form and space, as developed to give shape to live sound, would not be wholly applicable. This would have to do, among other things, with the fact that tone is not represented and experienced in the same way in recording as it is in real life. Music composed in and for a recorded medium will suggest new experiences and new forms of organization. It implies, in my case, a kinship with cinema.

Visit my Bandcamp page to purchase the full 15’ piece.