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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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Arrows Of Attention: Musical Prompting
You’re a soloist who specializes in 19th-century Romantic music. You have no sheet music in front of you and don’t consider yourself an improviser, yet at your instrument you’re able to remember fragments of themes, chord progressions, and melodies from dozens of different composers whose works you’ve practiced and performed. Use this partial knowledge to… Continue reading
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