Thomas Brett
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(parenthetical post)
(What do you want this blog to accomplish? I’m not sure it has any practical applications, but it has something to do with exploring creativity, cultivating risk-taking, and practicing the habit of sharing. Who is your audience? Not sure, though some of the followers I do know personally. Do you ‘own your product category’? That’s… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Johann Joseph Fux’s “The Study of Counterpoint” (1725)
“You must try to remember whether even in childhood you felt a strong natural inclination to this art and whether you were deeply moved by the beauty of concords.” – Johann Joseph Fux, The Study of Counterpoint (1725) Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Gerhard Richter On Art
“Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: ‘binding back’, ‘binding’ to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being).” – Notes, 1964-65 • “Art is the highest form of hope.” – Text for catalog of documents 7, Kassel, 1982 • Question: And what is it that connects… Continue reading
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Art About Music: Schematic For The Grateful Dead’s “Wall Of Sound” (c. 1974)
(The system could put out 28,000 watts of sound. To learn more about it: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnnayb/the-wall-of-sound). Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Peter Matthiessen’s “The Snow Leopard”
“Not change, but transformation.” – Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard, p. 15 Continue reading
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