“The president is brilliantly weaponizing the animosity cultivated in the electorate over the past 40 years, using it as a pretext to justify his attacks on his perceived enemies. While political violence and polarization remain serious concerns, our primary focus must shift to countering the deliberate democratic degradation unfolding before us. The conflict is no longer defined by the distance between the left and right, but by the state-sanctioned assault on the norms, laws and institutions that guarantee a liberal society.
“By forcing a player to deal with variables that are impossible to predict, the CLA teaches them to execute under duress rather than flawlessly in a vacuum. If a coach can get a player to work through failure and creatively solve problems, the thought goes, practice becomes more complex than the actual games.”
“The tinkerers are always at the edge of knowledge, because they’re always using the latest tools and the latest parts to build the cool things.”
“So I have a few mental tricks that I use, which I think are just naturally part of me. One of them, when I’m faced with a piece of technology, which can do something, I immediately don’t want to know about what it can do.
I want to know what it can do that the makers didn’t imagine it would ever be used to do. And with the type of technology that I work with, musical technology, that’s a very rich, open territory. And it’s rich and open because not that many people explore it.
You know, they have something that says, this will make your mixes sound louder. And they use it to make mixers sound louder…That’s what it says on the box. But you will also find out that that can do something else that nobody had ever thought of doing with music before.”
“Steve Reich was a very important part of my listening because he made a piece called ‘It’s Gonna Rain.’ It opened a door for me. And the door it opened was not just to do with the way in which he made it, which was itself very impressive, using an absolute minimum of material, 0.8 seconds of material, I think it was. That piece works by making your brain behave in a certain way.
All of his work, I think, depends on making your brain perform and watch itself performing in a certain way. So I suddenly thought then, Oh, the composer isn’t just Steve Reich. It’s Steve Reich and my brain that’s making this composition what it is. And that thought never left me that you actually are engaging the technology of the listener’s brain to complete the piece. They’re not passive.”
“[Kilian] Jornet decided he would follow, in his words, ‘the most aesthetic line.’”
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