wnfnow by Daniel Raymond

This music is distinct in its underlying syntax, differing greatly from my 2025 release ‘flexus,’ and though it is more alike to the material heard on ‘sfjknsdjfn’ (2025), the music represents a new modus operandi to create non-repeating repetition and the expression of various rates of note frequency that rely on the use of hand-foot combinations with greater cohesion than previous material I have generated.

Increasingly I am interested in what it means to 'hold' an area; a ‘thing.’ I am interested in the meaning in more of a literal and practical sense in order to understand how to sustain something on the drums that is either familiar or a more intuitively generated idea perhaps with less knowing - how to recognise when this is happening and what to do with it once it is happening.

This is interesting because I try to observe myself whilst I am playing ideas that may seem indeterminable yet I am making decisions that are somehow either ‘in’ or ‘out’ of the area that is being perpetuated.

The challenge comes once you are conscious of what you are doing, or that your improvised choices start to make some kind of arbitrary sense, the difficulty is then adding interest to the area without entirely abandoning it to inhibit stagnation whilst also allowing it to evolve.

This is particularly pertinent in the context of a solo setting as I believe areas that are found within a group setting appear to be of greater mystery and complexity than the former. Though I won’t make any further assumptions on this front.

Nonetheless I suspect this phenomenon has its roots in our fundamental mechanism of understanding music as temporal events comprehended via a lingering of the sonic information in the mind being held briefly enough to relate it to the current information being heard.

Despite my awareness that this all seems vague, a more succinct phrase of being “determined to be undetermined” came to mind with specific reference to the creation of this music.

So I hope you enjoy and I look forward to developing these ideas more.

Drummer based in Sydney, Australia.