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Slow Editing
Master of the Female Half-Lengths, A concert with a singer, flautist, lutenist and a jester (c. 1520s-1530s) “The inexhaustibly precise is always simple, always without resistance and easily grasped, but always has more to it than what first meets the eye.” Karl Ove Knausgård, In the Land of the Cyclops (2021) Unless you’re an improviser… Continue reading
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Database: Moritz von Oswald on Attention, Changing Sounds, Musical Weaves, Reduced Material, and Dub’s Sides
“For me, sometimes, it feels better to have only one note whose colors change. I pay attention to: How do we change the sound of this? Not through any weird effects. That would be gluing things together.” “If you had one rope, and you had a really nice knot with this one note—one rope—it can… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Kevin Roose’s “The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence” (2026)
“nobody—not even the people who train AI models for a living—knows exactly how large language models work” (226). “There was no end. Nobody would ever agree on what AGI was, or when we’d reached it. There were too many conflicting ideas and moving goalposts, and no universally accepted definition of the thing they were all… Continue reading
