Thomas Brett
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Twenty Frames For Thinking About Creativity
Adjacent possible. This concept describes how biological systems can transform into more complex systems via small changes or gated rates of discovery. It comes from Stuart Kauffman, who writes in his book Investigations (2002) that “a biosphere gates its way into the adjacent possible at just that rate at which its inhabitants can just manage… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Morley’s “A Sound Mind” (2020)
Everyone could find what they wanted now, quickly and efficiently, guided by genial, anonymous calculations, by ever-increasing playlists, by a proliferation of genres that almost bureaucratically processed and filed music for driving, sleeping, motivating, studying, eating, chilling, isolation, concentrating, shopping, swapping, dancing, night-time, Thursday. It became a world that was looking for user-friendly tips and… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Olivia Belli’s “Lullaby for a Distant Angel (After Beethoven)” (2020)
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Resonant Thoughts: Leonard Koren’s “Musings Of A Curious Aesthete” (2020)
“Beauty is typically associated with bringing new things into existence: A beautiful painting. A beautiful musical composition. Beautiful architecture…But beauty, I realized at that instant, can also be created and/or restored by removing things from existence. Like eliminating the visible consequences of thoughtless human action. That is what I did when picking up litter in… Continue reading
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