One of the finest works in this canon is John B's "Star Burst 1.1", which really defied gravity for me. It's hard to find, but well worth the travel. I feel a reason I like to cite music so much when blogging is, even tho my ears aren't at their best, I'd still like to know my life has a soundtrack. Establishing some sort of liquid flow helps me do other things too, because the way music is, you can't listen to whole song at once: it takes time.

That sensory discombobulation is amusing. When you have a painting in front of you, you can easily zoom your eye into any part and then, well, zoom back out to "the big picture" again. Not quite so with music. Even with digital controls, you can skip and shuffle and jog, but to really know what a piece of fine songwriting is really like, again, it takes time.

When I was actively composing, I'd obsessively get into little sections of just a few seconds in span?4 bars, maybe 8, sometimes even 16 or 32?and loop them over and over, and then imagine what could be done differently on each passing repetition. This unfolded into the grander structure of how I'd progress elements, thinning out the bassline here or throwing in a phased cymbal (magic!) on the first beat to ANNOUNCE THE COMING OF A NEW MELODY! That was my personal brand of time travel?whelp, before all this Second Life schtuff happened, anyway.

I'd like to believe there's a Torley out there who's still making music.