There are possibly two key reasons why musicians take on other professional tasks – they need a number of personal channels to express their talents and ideas or, they simply need more money. Or both. Whatever is the case with Max Alper, who as a musician goes under Peretsky, he tries to express himself as a composer (and performer), as well as an educator (there he is La Meme Young), and technologist.
For the case in hand, his most recent album It Doesn’t Get Cold In October Anymore (and he’s got over 30 of those), he maybe can stick to music, as the one he makes works on a number of levels. While previously he spread his musical palette from noise, sound art, and free improvisation, this time around he decided to work with melody as the key element, and it seems to work so well for him, thank you.
Yet, as someone with his previous musical experience and obvious knowledge that spreads beyond modern song forms, his songs structures do not necessarily follow the standard formulas and he tends to employ his vast musical knowledge while constructing his songs/compositions here.
Essentially, it all sounds like musical structures that are at the same time both simple and complex, something that any ‘ordinary’ listener can pick up on without the need to dissect the elements involved.
