“From Nic [Nicolas Roeg] I learned never to try to make something perfect, because it will take the life right out of it,” he says. “Every piece of music I write has one purpose only, which is to ask questions. That’s really what I picked up from Terry Malick. And he kept saying about Thin Red Line that ‘it should only ask questions, it should never answer questions’.
“I keep thinking how music very often tries to answer questions, like you get that last note, it’s a nice resolution and it’s all over. Isn’t it much more interesting that music behaves like doors opening that invite you and ask questions of you, and sort of has a dialogue with the audience as opposed to a dictatorship imposing its answers on to you, imposing what you are supposed to feel.”
I was in Toronto a couple of weeks ago – just long enough to find out I was going to miss both Steve Reich and Robert Rich in concert days later. I think I blubbed a bucket of tears in about four and a half minutes. The guy we were staying with got to see not one, but both of Steve Reich’s concerts and had to tell us about how awesome they were. Yeah… that’s when I blubbed the second bucket of salty water.
The name is pronounced “hong”, and it’s only made by one company in Switzerland. To get one, you basically have to walk across the ocean on home-made rubber duckie boots, enter the city of Berne on a Tuesday between 9:00am and 11:00am, and present a dozen gutted French lops to the company owner in your underwear.
There’s a ton of Youtube vids. May favorite is the one above.
OK, I’m an idiot. Up till now, I’ve been using a giant gifs from random places on the net (like, Stephen Saxon’s Staff Paper Page) to get my staff paper. But now I discover there are Web apps to customize them for you.
