decision-making
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Database Update
The Music Production Concepts Database is updated and now has almost 100 entries. Continue reading
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Accretion By Small Decisions
When I’m making music I try to prioritize the performative parts of my workflow over other, more technical tasks, because performing—which can be defined as committing to a concentrated state over time—intuitively feels like the most musical thing I can do (and it’s something I’ve practiced). I’ve written here about the urgency of performance and Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Annie Duke’s “Thinking In Bets” (2018)
“What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of knowledge.” Annie Duke, Thinking In Bets, p. 27. Continue reading
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On Key Moments In Composing
Each time you sit down at the computer and the keyboard to compose it feels as if you have no prior experience to draw on. Even though all your conscious knowing tells you that this can’t be the case, you’re beginning as if from scratch, facing the empty screen without being able recall the hundreds Continue reading
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On The Lessons Of Antifragility For Creativity: Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Antifragile”
“We know more than we think we do, a lot more than we can articulate” (35) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb I used to resist randomly exploring some aspect of music software–an instrument, a sound, an effect, a sequencer–because I wanted to have a sense ahead of time where I was headed. (Good luck with that Continue reading
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Sound Decisions: On Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
“Instinct puts us in the moment, intellect is slower.” – Robert Fripp “The proof that you truly understand a pattern of behavior is that you know how to reverse it.” – Daniel Kahneman Sometimes while working on writing new music I’ve noticed how I oscillate between two frames of mind. One frame feels spontaneous and intuitive. Continue reading
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