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Resonant Thoughts: Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (2019)
“Anomalies are often the path to a new understanding.” “Today all the available sources of intuitive life – the natural world, cultural tradition, the body, religion and art – have been so conceptualised, devitalised and ‘deconstructed’ (ironised) by self-consciousness, explicitness and the systems and theories used to analyse them, that their power to help us… Continue reading
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Sonic Fictions
We were watching a short-form video on the phone. A handsome pilot sits in the cockpit of a commercial jet, explaining all the technologies that make flying safe. The tone of his voice is confident and calm, his ideas make reassuring sense. But something’s off. The pilot’s in a cockpit, but his voice is somewhere… Continue reading
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Database: Mark Clifford On Squeezing The Life Out Of Equipment
“Everything’s so sophisticated in terms of equipment that you can just put a guitar through an effects pedal and you think, ‘Wow, that’s cool.’ But anyone else could have done the same thing. That ceases to interest me then because I’m not interested in doing things which are simple. I don’t think less of people… Continue reading
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Drumming Diaries: Energies of Performance
Edgar Degas, Musicians in the Orchestra (1872) “There’s a whole orchestra down there. This is where all the music happens.” “Look—he’s playing a huge xylophone!” “He’s trained his entire life to learn those instruments.” At the show over the past few years I’ve noticed more and more curious audience members peering over the pit at… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: John Berger’s “Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing” (1960/2025)
“After we have responded to a work of art, we leave it, carrying away in our consciousness something which we didn’t have before. This something amounts to more than our memory of the incident represented, and also more than our memory of the shapes and colors and spaces which the artist has used and arranged.… Continue reading
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Stolen Moments Are Open-Ended
The brief moments in which many musical projects begin feel stolen because they are as if outside of time, free from routine, surprising, and rich in delight. They’re powerful because they’re witness to something new happening. But how does this unfold? As usual there’s no plan, I’m just exploring—clicking on sounds, moving audio around, or… Continue reading
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