scale versus proportion...

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...:::...i am interested lately in thoughts about scale and proportion...about how one thing relates to the next...and about how things interact and change meaning through proximity...

recently i have been working on a project that has brought context to this distinction. but rather than describe the quantifiables in a laundry-list fashion, i think better to talk about it's translations...across a tilting plane of meaning (remember? i slide around on it in my socked-feet)...

proportion can be a factor of scale, where as one dimension increases, so the others do equally. but what i am more interested in is the feeling of these relationships...of knowing when the balance is right, even if it appears asymmetrical...a lead ball next to a helium-filled balloon...

and sequencing sounds, i think, is very much about proportion...about how placing one song next to another can shift it's weight...about how it is less the length or tone or melody, and more how these elements create a dialog, press against one another into new shapes and forms...about how they build a new and wonderful wall-less room around you through testing their proportions...in constant movement, adjusting the teeter and the wobble that comes not from looking for a happy medium, but from getting a little lost sometimes so that you can learn new boundary conditions...

download: 070309-modyfier part01

gastek – white (king roc remix) : feb 2007 on inminimal
agaric – b untitled : feb 2007 on we are records
intensitive – bit beat : feb 2007 on geometricdeck
kj gibbs – won’t be (bruno’s mascara remix) : mar 2007 on lessizzmore
andreas henneberg – reverb-deverb (minimedley mix mathias schaffhaeuser) : feb 2007 on karatemusik
john tejada & arian leviste – multiplier : mar 2007 on palette recordings
stefan tretau – karawankem blues : mar 2007 on sounderground records
christian quast – dream of me : feb 2007 on glueckskind schallplatten
mike rubin – sandman superstar (florian meindl remix) : jan 2007 on stil vor talent
martin eyerer & toni rios – liberacion : mar 2007 on kickboxer recordings
novatek – normal : mar 2007 on tongut
seuil – affected : feb 2007 on 60sec records

download: 070309-modyfier part02

colorswitch – spy : mar 2007 on clever music
pakt – where is my jeans : oct 2006 on acid milk recordings
sebastian roya – distancias de noche : feb 2007 on connoisseur recordings
christian dittmann – la mafia : mar 2007 on thinner
d.j.a. – noelles : mar 2007 on acid milk recordings
teka – stuch (mlle caro & franck garcia remix) : jan 2007 on sismic music
mike breitfeld – pulsevector : mar 2007 on broque
juno6 – radio am : mar 2007 on 1-bit wonder
d. diggler – odic force (volta remix) : feb 2007 on resopal schallware
bjorn wilke – r u ready ralph (someone else remix) : feb 2007 on level non zero recordings
paul ritch – souba : mar 2007 on resopal schallware
joakim – everything bright and still : feb 2007 on !k7 records