• An article about Mouse On Mars. “Music is a strong anarchic force,” Mr. St. Werner said. “It’s probably our last bastion of anarchic wilderness, that trace of nature that keeps just growing, keeps crossbreeding, keeps immigrating and migrating and cross-fertilizing and expanding our perceptual apparatus. It’s also a great means for orientation and for Continue reading

• A video explaining how film sound design shapes our perception. • An article about AI-generated art. “What happens in a world where effort and scarcity are no longer part of the definition of art?” • An article about incorporating African musics into Hollywood film scores. “The most difficult part is that as soon as Continue reading

• An article on leftfield dub. “Certain operators in the electronic diaspora can be found exploring dub studio practices to create idiosyncratic music that feels inherently spawned from the heritage of soundsystem music without adhering to any particular rules.” • An article on the “secret” chord for songs that sounds happy. “Unexpectedly, [the researchers] found Continue reading

• On The Edge, an awesome four-part BBC series on improvisation written by Derek Bailey (1930-2005) that surveys a range of music making. • An article about waking and creativity. “What is it about walking, in particular, that makes it so amenable to thinking and writing? The answer begins with changes to our chemistry.” • Continue reading

• A very short film showing starlings flying in synchrony. • An article on writing, walking, and freedom. “There was only the track, or the idea of it. The way forward was often unclear, the trail ambiguous and sometimes impossible to see. Like writing, it was infuriating and freeing, terrifying, and absolutely necessary to me.” Continue reading

• A brief video on a composer’s music and the intersection of music and food. • Brian Eno’s lecture “The Recording Studio As Compositional Tool”: • A critic discusses his life as a failed artist. “My work had something of the timeless beauty of older geometries and hermetic diagrams and illustration. The colors were pretty. Continue reading

• Another interview with Harold Budd. “‘My preferred way of working at the moment is improvisation, but not just anything,’ Budd says. ‘I want it to be grounded in something that’s feasible, organic and personal. I try to direct it towards specific goals. To make it sound pretty, frankly – if I can use that Continue reading

• A magisterial article by a most influential architect, Christopher Alexander. “Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding—mystical in part—of the entity that underpins that wholeness. The path of architecture thus leads inexorably towards a renewed understanding of God. Continue reading

• A short documentary about free jazz. “Part of the creativity is in the listening.” • A brief article about how hearing the human voice is multisensory. “We rely on a panoply of sensory experiences to navigate the medium of sound. The multisensory ensemble helps us to discuss a speaker’s emotions and feelings through the Continue reading