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superunison asked: it seems like there's way too much going on with your music for everything to be totally free, so i guess i'm curious how you decide what to hold fixed, and when.
I’d interrogate the assumption that when things aren’t structured they are ‘free’. You start doing something, and initially you are acting out of habbit, that, I think, is what we call free. Then, as you familiarize yourself with what’s going on, the spirit becomes more that of inquiry. That’s how I think of it. I want to know how narrowly I can trap a phenomena, how an instrument, a pitch or group of pitches, or a piece of technology will behave, under extremely refined circumstances. But it’s not really decision making… I start doing something, and at first I’m just doing me, but then curiosity about some quality takes over, and that curiosity burns off everything that’s in the way of the question. Hopefully that helps…
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This is the blog of Sam Hillmer. Sam is a Musician, Facilitator, and Organizer living in Bushwick Brooklyn. Sam is the founder of the band ZS, the youth Hip Hop presenting organization Representing NYC, and the conceptual art installation duo Trouble (The You Are Here Festival), and is a facilitator and organizer for Carnegie Hall's Weil Music Institute, The Beacon Center for Arts and Leadership, and LEAP/ALLL. Sam is interested in the spiritual, political, and economic dimensions of local, communally practiced arts and activism in the entertainment and social services industries. The posts on this blog will integrate the most relevant posts that represent Sam's various projects and include some original posts pertinent to the subjects named above. This is not a personal site!
