Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: Jenny Odell’s “How To Do Nothing” (2019)
“If we think about what it means to ‘concentrate’ or ‘pay attention’ at an individual level, it implies alignment: different parts of the mind and even the body acting in concert and oriented toward the same thing. To pay attention to one thing is to resist paying attention to other things; it means constantly denying Continue reading
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On Non-Algorithmic Music Recommendations
“In Spotify’s view…when users search for and listen to music they are providing a measurable set of inputs from which musical tastes and desires can be extrapolated. This user behavior is recorded, compared and evaluated against that of other users, then sorted into metadata and used to calculate every song and artist’s degree of relevance Continue reading
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The Perfect Room: Two Perspectives
“When you put on a pair of headphones you are wearing the studio on your head, which is 100 percent reproducible. I’ve never been in a room that affected how my headphones sound.” – Andrew Scheps “What you perceive when you listen to a mix isn’t some kind of objective reality: it’s almost entirely constructed Continue reading
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