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Music Production Quandaries (And Solutions)
Music production involves a computer trackpad and screen. Figure out how to transcend them. The music’s goal state is a recording that isn’t a performance, but an evocation of one, a simulation of music-making that never transpired in real time. But are there other ways the music can perform? New instruments are developed at a… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Dave Eggers’ “Contrapposto: A Novel” (2026)
“Rembrandt lived three hundred years ago and knew far more than we do now. How is that? Why is that? Why have we gotten less skilled, less competent, less knowledgeable, less adept and versatile? How can that be?” (168). “You have been mistaught! You have been fed the lie that intent is achievement. It is… Continue reading
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Keywords: Sympathetic Resonance
Sarangi with its sympathetic strings Touch one string and the others around it begin vibrating, each in its own way. The surrounding strings are sympathetic to what the main string is saying, humming along with it, adding their overtones into the mix, as if saying I hear you. Sympathetic resonance happens when a passive vibratory… Continue reading
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(Un)Stuck
Paul Klee, Polyphony (1932) If you make things, you begin every day by being stuck and the way forward is to figure out how to get unstuck. Being stuck has as many forms as there are artists experiencing it. One form is apathy, or not feeling drawn in one direction or another with urgency. Another… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Florent Ghys/Aphex Twin’s “Rhubarb (arr. Florent Ghys for Bass and Electronics” (2026)
We probably don’t share the same taste in music… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Cory Doctorow’s “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” (2026)
“Art is what happens when an artist has a big, numinous, irreducibly complex feeling in their mind, which they infuse into some artistic medium—a book, a song, a dance, a painting, a photograph, and such—in the hopes of making a facsimile of that big, numinous, irreducibly complex feeling materialize in the minds of people who… Continue reading
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