I Came To New York To Be

Technology Has Altered The Way Music Sounds, How It’s Composed And How We Experience It. It Has Also Flooded The World With Music. The World Is Awash With (mostly) Recorded Sounds. We Used To Have To Pay For Music Or Make It Ourselves; Playing, Hearing And Experiencing It Was Exceptional, A Rare And Special Experience. Now Hearing It Is Ubiquitous, And Silence Is The Rarity That We Pay For And Savor.

I Subscribe To The Myth That An Artist's Creativity Comes From Torment. Once That's Fixed, What Do You Draw On?

With Pop Music, The Format Dictates The Form To A Big Degree. Just Think Of The Pop Single. It Has Endured As A Form Even In The Download Age Because Bands Conform To A Strict Format, And Work, Often Very Productively, Within The Parameters.

My Take Is That The Kind Of Complexity Which Says We Can Always Generate Complexity From Simple Interactions Following For Example Rules.

People Hear About Stuff From Their Friends Or A Magazine Or A Newspaper.