a rant on sonicism.

everything we do in the construction of a finished piece is a reflection of a mood or memory that we wish to evoke in the listener. this holds for rhythms, structures, even tones. whatever the paradigm we're working within, we make choices with regards to overall details, small details, everything in between, that reflect from where we are coming.

just as a modern 'abstract' painter can reference primitivist shapes or motifs or utilize line patterns evocative of baroque paintings, a sonicist can use 'tools' such as rhythm, texture, pattern (structure) to evoke past styles. this is the link between musique concrete and collage.

i used to refer to myself as a musician; sometimes i would refer to my music as 'sound collage.' but, i am a sonicist. i paint with sound the way any painter paints with brushes (or spatulas or anything). some of that is collage, some is just juxtaposition. but we must, as sonicists, regard each and every element (melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, structure) as a tool with which to express what we hear inside our minds. this is the unifying theory of sound.