Creativity
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Resonant Thoughts: Gábor Lázár on Musical Sketches
“Usually I try to find a balance between a rhythmic pattern and filter modulations which together articulate some interesting quality. For me, sketch is a strange word because it means something like trying to manifest an idea. Of course I have some kind of idea, but many times I just look at my idea as Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: John Cleese’s “Creativity” (2020)
“So you just sit there and, eventually, as the mind quietens, odd ideas and notions relevant to your puzzle start popping in your mind. But they are…odd! And the reason they seem odd is that they’re not what our usual logical, critical, analytical mind is used to. They don’t arrive in the form of words, Continue reading
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Small Musical Failures As Non-Obvious Usage Paths
“Create non-obvious usage paths. In my experience, it’s the best algorithm.”– Dombaeb, KVR Audio In my work I notice a recurring pattern to small failures and the breakthroughs that sometimes follow them. Here is how the pattern plays out: 1. I’m doing my usual musical things, but nothing seems to be working. Nothing sounds interesting, Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ernö Rubik’s “Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All” (2020)
“I had no deadline. I simply enjoyed the problem I had stumbled upon and knew that, for me, working on a problem is a prerequisite for fostering–or liberating–my imagination.” “At its core, design is the link to nature for artificial objects. Nature does not know strict borders; it only knows transition. An understanding of the Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Guy Sigsworth On Fast And Slow Creativity
“For me, there are two types of creativity: fast and slow. The spontaneous, explosive side, where I’m generating ideas quickly; and the refining, organising side, where I slowly make it fit together into a satisfying whole. It’s important to know whether, at any moment, you need to be in fast mode or slow mode. I Continue reading
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Notes On Music Production In Quarantine
Recently, with more time at home, I’ve been thinking through and working on different ways of making music. My usual approach is to improvise my way into something interesting. This always involves playing the keyboard, using a sound that I believe in, and trying to figure out some kind of structure and flow for that Continue reading
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The One Fell Swoop Principle
I spend a fair amount of time trying stuff out in the depths of my music software. Okay, I’m not actually going that deep—imagine a swimmer ducking under water and going down oh, six feet down. But it’s deep enough to feel the blue calm below the water’s busy surface, deep enough to enjoy the Continue reading
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