Thomas Brett
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Brett’s Sound Picks: William Basinski’s “Tear Vial” (2020)
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Notes On Production Clichés
“Beware of clichés…There are clichés of response as well as expression.There are clichés of observation and of thought–even of conception.”–Geoff Dyer I struck out a bit yesterday when I tried making something. I liked the sound, but the melody was hackneyed. It was so bad, so uninteresting, that I recorded it as a reminder that this… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Nassim Taleb On Tinkering
“It is in complex systems, ones in which we have little visibility of the chains of cause-consequences, that tinkering, bricolage, or similar variations of trial and error have been shown to vastly outperform the teleological —it is nature’s modus operandi. (…) Take the most opaque of all, cooking, which relies entirely on the heuristics of… Continue reading
