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On Intuition and Technique
Wasily Kandinsky, Improvisation 35 (1914) Music production is a back-and-forth between two ways of organizing sound. The first way is intuitive, which means making by playing, improvising, trial and error, and following whatever sounds good. The intuitive is an example of what Daniel Kahneman called System 1 thinking, which is decision-making that’s fast and instinctive.… Continue reading
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Database: Autechre On Music That Reveals Itself By Changing Piece By Piece As It Rotates
“I think a lot of people, when they’re constructing complex music, have this idea that for something maddeningly complex to change into something else that’s maddeningly complex you’ve got to do it suddenly. But there are millions of ways you can do it, because you can have your entire track changing piece by piece as… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Geoff Dyer’s “Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence” (2014)
“It opened with that northern brass band music which sounds like it marched to its own funeral more than a century ago, music whose every note is a lamentation for its having become extinct” (76). “Except extinction no longer means ‘no longer in existence’. Plenty of extinct things are still around. Brass bands, for example:… Continue reading
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