• A composer shares his college class notes from a class taught by Alvin Lucier.
“Art doesn’t have to please, make you happy or sad.”
• An article about the impact of Googling on our ways of thinking.
“We’ve adopted the Google ideal of the mind, which is that you have a question that you can answer quickly: close-ended, well-defined questions. Lost in that conception is that there’s also this open-ended way of thinking where you’re not always trying to answer a question. You’re trying to go where that thought leads you. As a society, we’re saying that that way of thinking isn’t as important anymore. It’s viewed as inefficient.”
• An article about the importance of microphone sound in politics.
“Monopolizing the microphone may be a key to political success. We typically attend to politician’s words—the “message”—but merely having the mic gives any message a shot. And the bulk of mic-monopolizing may be simply claiming a microphone to begin with—and fending off anyone else who comes for it.”
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