WILT_2020-08

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 15 Nov 2020 to 21 Nov 2020.

1. Time – Poppy Ackroyd
2. Arctic Tern – Aaron Lansing
3. Papillon – Johannes Motschmann
4. Modul 20_14 – Nik Bärtsch
5. Hurricane – Slow Meadow
6. Spark – Niklas Paschburg
7. Purples – Sebastian Plano
8. Everything in Its Right Place – Brad Mehldau Trio (original by Radiohead)
9. Juniper – Slow Rolling Camera
10. Après un rêve” (Op. 7, No. 1) – Gabriel Fauré, performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott
11. Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: III. Courante – Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Yo-Yo Ma
12. 2400 – Martyn Heyne
13. Hiddensee – Ceeys
14. Cop Killer – John Maus

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2020-08

Notes

One of the things that really stood out for me as I’m reflecting on these notes, is how much I feel like I dislike the image choice that I chose to front this playlist.

A bit of background into this process, is that at current, these images are captured by me, and manipulated / de-saturated and shared on my Instagram account. I’ve been picking out these images at random from a folder, and selecting the image for the playlist before I even know what songs will populate the list. Call it a terrible experiment to see if there is any order in chaos, or any logic to happenstance, to see if the universe aligns a random premeditation to a random reaction.

I do not have any conclusive findings, and like most things, the universe is chaos. The things that happen are chaos, and/or my perception is chaotic. Or it might be full of order and as it should be. Maybe these images, sounds and words bring order to someone in its current context. Maybe someone or something is able to perceive an order into this wonderfully complex or benignly simple system. I suppose what I’m trying to say is that order and chaos are the same. They might be concepts that are dichotomous, but I think they exist in the same existence, consciousness and perception. And there isn’t a need to choose, because ultimately you choose whatever answer brings you comfort at that point in your life.

Dear reader, I hope you enjoy this playlist. I’m listening to it again as I’m typing this, and it is amazing what humans are capable of creating. The music I’ve been drawn to this week is minimal in its instrumentation, but rich in its emotive appeal, and flamboyant at times in its virtuosity. I’m still drawn to the contemporary classical types of music for the moment, because there is a certain exploration of the tension between traditional forms and contemporary expression. I’m not a trained musician, but my ear is picking up some of these tensions and releases in the performances of the musicians captured in these audio recordings.