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From The Desk Of Thalia Zedek: Patterns

The quiet, introspective Eve shows off the Thalia Zedek Band’s impressive musical range. Zedek made her name playing her singular brand of ear-splitting, dissonant lead guitar with Come, Uzi and Live Skull, outfits known for their fierce approach to performing and recording. Her music with the Thalia Zedek Band may not be as loud, but it has the same level of emotional intensity that’s always been her trademark. Zedek will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.

Zedek: Maybe it’s because I’m the daughter of a mathematician, but I’ve always been obsessed with numbers and their groupings. Don’t get me wrong: This obsession did not help me not suck at algebra, but I’ve always found counting and numerical and repetitious patterns soothing. Maybe that’s why the first time I heard “Repetition” by the Fall, I fell in love with it. Music is numbers, counting, rhythmic and melodic patterns for the most part. Sometimes it’s not, and then that’s pretty cool, too. Sometimes there will be two or more different musical patterns that eventually will cross each other, kind of like planets in different orbits. And there’s probably a musical version of Chaos Theory out there as well. Islamic art makes beautiful use of patterns as drawing figurative images is forbidden. And then there are the patterns of human foibles that are studied and analyzed by historians. Now might be a good time to pay attention to those types of patterns as well!