August 2017
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Unknowing
It sounds new age (it’s not) instead of an exceptional technique, gifts of novice: that first time when you don’t know what you’re doing so head first you dive into its rhythm (a bypassing move) swift and sure trusting form is sound context becomes clear means generate ends because this first time practice beats theory… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Michael Robbins’ “Equipment For Living”
“I used to try to listen my way under my skin, but it turned out that listening was my skin. Listening to records was not just something I did, it was who I was. Not a day passed, for years, that I didn’t spend hours sitting in front of my stereo or burrowing into my… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: “Tympanum of the Other Frog” In John Corbett’s “Microgroove”
In the preface to his excellent book Microgrooves (2015), critic and musician John Corbett recounts listening to the sounds of frogs by a pond with his father when he was eight years old. Corbett’s dad told him to focus on the sound of one particular frog among the full chorus. “Now, he said, keeping that… Continue reading
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Working Knowledge: The Quieting Process
The perceptual key to effective writing—words or music, it doesn’t matter—is getting into a space of concentration. I call this the Quieting process: a narrowing of attention where the present is felt as a fully enveloping perpetual now. Yesterday’s work is gone—you can barely recall it!—and tomorrow remains a question mark. You’re left with only… Continue reading
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On Visual Resonances
Golf Course, Zen Garden Cymbal, Water Wavelets Artwork (Piet Mondrian, “Composition with Grid IX”), Ableton Push Controller Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Ways of Hearing Podcast, Magic And Perception, Playing Chopin
• A six-part podcast, Ways of Hearing. “Digital time is not lived time–it’s machine time.” • An article on how magic exploits the quirks of perception. “My team’s work reveals that the art of magic also relies on an analogous, but opposite grand illusion, in which we are blind to the prodigious clairvoyance of our… Continue reading
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