Michael Gordon Penn Michael Gordon Penn Boston My noise. I will create in one way or another always. Constantly transforming... “But there’s something even more fundamental, too... improvisation is one of the most crucial elements in what we think of as black music: “The raising of individual creativity/expression to the highest place within the aesthetic world of a song.” Without improvisation, a listener is seduced into the composition of the song itself and not the distorting or deviating elements that noise creates. Particular to black American music is the architecture to create a means by which singers and musicians can be completely free, free in the only way that would have been possible on a plantation: through art, through music — music no one “composed” (because enslaved people were denied literacy), music born of feeling, of play, of exhaustion, of hope. What you’re hearing in black music is a miracle of sound, an experience that can really happen only once — not just melisma, glissandi, the rasp of a sax, breakbeats or sampling but the mood or inspiration from which those moments arise. The attempt to rerecord it seems, if you think about it, like a fool’s errand. You’re not capturing the arrangement of notes, per se. You’re catching the spirit.” New York Times: Why they Steal from Black Music Www.mpenndesigns.com Michael Gordon Penn’s tracks Quarantine II by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2020-04-11T23:46:38Z Quarantine M1 Discovery by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2020-04-03T04:56:47Z Broken Rainbow (Final Cut) by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2019-03-05T11:19:07Z February 21, 2019 11:08:36 PM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2019-02-22T08:01:30Z February 10, 2019 4:40:15 AM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2019-02-10T10:08:21Z 3 Tsunami Generation March 18, 2018 4:19:22 PM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2018-06-10T11:08:50Z 4 Tsunami Generation March 18, 2018 4:21:38 PM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2018-06-10T11:10:36Z So Insanely In Love March 17, 2018 2:52:47 PM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2018-05-26T06:06:13Z How Good God Feels March 18, 2018 5:21:48 PM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2018-05-26T06:19:11Z
3 Tsunami Generation March 18, 2018 4:19:22 PM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2018-06-10T11:08:50Z
4 Tsunami Generation March 18, 2018 4:21:38 PM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2018-06-10T11:10:36Z
So Insanely In Love March 17, 2018 2:52:47 PM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2018-05-26T06:06:13Z
How Good God Feels March 18, 2018 5:21:48 PM by Michael Gordon Penn published on 2018-05-26T06:19:11Z