analogies
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Finding Musical Analogies In Lawrence Weschler’s “On The Digital Animation Of The Face”
“Coldness is about more than just a sound and a look, and it’s more than the coldness of a technological being, too. Coldness is what we fear lies beyond human capability. Coldness is the gap between human intentions and outcomes. It’s the uncanny valley of the human reflected in the non-human.”–Adam Harper In his marvelous Continue reading
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On The Musicality Of Architecture
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” – Martin Mull Walking across a recently re-designed section of Times Square last week I had a pleasant sensation that the design was working on me, on us pedestrians, guiding us along certain paths and shaping our sense of space. Sometime last year I read a New Continue reading
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On Creative Analogies: Lessons From El Bulli
“Order, order, order, that’s how you create.”–Ferran Adria If you have an interest in creativity, there are a number of reasons to recommend watching the film Cooking In Progress. The film tracks Ferran Adria and his crew from the famous El Bulli restaurant in a coastal town in north-east Spain. El Bulli is now closed–Adria Continue reading
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Notes On Magnus Nilsson’s “Faviken”
In Bill Buford’s insightful essay that introduces Magnus Nilsson’s Faviken cookbook (Phaidon), Nilsson speaks of feeling, touch, and vibration when explaining the transcendent quality of French chef Michel Bras‘ cooking: “I don’t think I can describe it. Or not in technical terms, because it has nothing to do with technique (…) It’s in an extra Continue reading
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Borrowed Thoughts: Haruki Murakami On Mundane Actions
“No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.” – Haruki Murakami Continue reading
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On Salvador Dali’s “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory”
There is something unsettling about Salvador Dali’s The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1954). On the face of it, it looks like an outdoor scene composed of water, sky, and mountains. But what about those rectangular blocks and melting clocks? The blocks convey one time sense moving forward in an orderly way. But the blocks Continue reading
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Musical Resonances: On Nate Silver’s The Signal And The Noise
The gist of Nate Silver’s excellent The Signal and the Noise (2012) is that in order to make good predictions about the world we need to learn to think probabilistically. Delving into a range of rigorous case studies ranging from baseball and presidential elections to the stock market, poker playing, global warming and terrorism, Silver Continue reading
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