mall by katharine eastman

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very repetitive/minimal, though things change/evolve all the time. I love this one very much indeed, but as is the way with something as bludgeoningly over-and-over-and-over as this you'll either loathe it after two seconds or want to play it over and over all week and indeed it's a thin line between love and hate.

All distortions are intentional.
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My big new keyboard has forced me to make a kind of music I'd not been planning on making. It's nice that its sound is mellow and doesn't grate ....... and yet, you know what, I do kind of miss the gratingness of my cheap little old keyboard - it's like an annoying older sister who finally leaves home and you've got the bedroom to yourself, hurrah!, and then goddammit you miss her like crazy - miss the madness and her annoyingness, how those things made you spark and (a)live.

Yes my "new" keyboard is very polite and mellow and nice and gentle and kind and cooperative - but 50 minutes in the company of someone or something like that can be a bit (lot) boring. And so I'm finding. The only way to spark a reaction from this thing is to take the tiny brief few moments of LIFE that it inadvertently lets slip out and then just repeat it over and over again. And this is what I have done here. And I like it very much.

A bad worker blames her tools - and that is my usual habit. But for now, I am working with my tools (and still blaming them) and I'm being changed by them. I'm a bit like a chippy who finds that all her tools are blunt and no good at hacking wood and so instead I get a job using them to scrape wallpaper off old houses, or demolishing them slowly. I always dreamed of being a meditational musician. But my keyboard has forced me to become a minimalist. I'm happy to go with the Fates.
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Finally, though certainly not least-ly - an update on my Follower situation, which took an amazing and wonderful turn sometime this afternoon. I got another email to say that I'd got a fourth follower. And what a follower !!!! - none other than the wonderful Wings Of An Angel, king of the Ambient Universe. I am hugely honoured and humbled. This is a bit like a film-buff finding that they're being followed on Twitter by David Fincher, or a book-lover finding they're being followed by Margaret Atwood.

What a great day it's been - a lovely toddle into town to mooch round John Lewis - in a Holly-Golightly-in-Tiffanys kinda way - so don't worry, I didn't buy anything, I'm with Carrie Simmonds on this - kind-of - she'd only buy £800 rolls of wallpaper, and I'd only buy 80p rolls of charity shop wallpaper. Then I make a piece of music I like very much. Then I get a wonderful new follower. Now that I no longer drink there is no suitable way of celebrating such wonderfulness, so all I can do is just luxuriate, and this evening, waiting for this to upload, that is exactly what I am doing.
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(recorded in the middle of today, 6 May 2021, photograph West Quay, Southampton this morning)
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