Clot Magazine

For our second Mixtape, experimental musician Zachary Paul has prepared a selection of novel approaches to string instruments. Zachary Paul is a violinist and composer interested in perception, the transportive nature of long durations, and trance states. His work explores the contrast between stasis and movement and questions the possibility of depicting both synchronously with a profound sensibility and emotion, drawing from a long lineage of artists exploring sustained tones within organic performance, including Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, and La Monte Young. Zachary is currently a participant in Touch's curated mentorship program where he’s also released his first album A Meditation on Discord, last April 2019. In this Mix he reflects about one of his main interests: Growing up as a classical musician, he was always attracted to composers who invited the performer to play their instrument in a unique way. The vocabulary of the violin is much larger than the twelve notes of the diatonic scale and there