Reading Analogically
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Reading Analogically: Two Ideas From Christopher Alexander’s “A Pattern Language” (1977)
“Don’t attend to larger issues in the [music] unless you can do something about them, concretely, in your own project.” “Compress as many patterns as you can into the smallest possible [musical] space.” – Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language (1977) Continue reading
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Reading Analogically: Alain Passard’s Axis Of Creativity And Gestures
“You see, color is an axis of creativity. Arrange your yellow, crimson, green ingredients. When you begin your dish like this, you can play with it” (29). “With colors, I never go wrong. You choose the colors, you listen” (30). (From Christophe Blain, In the Kitchen with Alain Passard) • “We don’t record anything. We don’t write Continue reading
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Reading Analogically: On Creativity In David Gelernter’s “The Tides Of Mind”
“Creative problem solving is widely agreed to center on inventing a new analogy–sometimes called ‘restructuring’ the problem. When you suddenly see a connection between two things you don’t ordinarily speak or think of together, you have the basis of a new analogy, or a creative thought…By comparing a puzzling something with a something else to Continue reading
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Reading Analogically: Ideas From René Redzepi’s “A Work In Progress”
“We’re always searching for an association that allows the dish to make sense on a fundamental level–a connection we can build the finishing elements on.” “We made a dish with no reference points in the past nor in other lands.” Examining in depth a single ingredient. Mapping ingredients and creating a knowledge bank. “It’s almost Continue reading
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Reading Analogically: Notes On Western Logic And Eastern Dialecticism In Richard Nisbett’s “Mindware”
In one of the more fascinating sections of Richard Nisbett’s gripping book Mindware, there is a comparison between the principles of Western logic versus those of Eastern dialecticism. As I read through the comparison I thought about how these different mindsets might manifest themselves in musical contexts. Let’s take a look. Three principles underlie the Continue reading
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Reading Analogically: Thinking About Music As A Landscape
“Landscapes like ours were created by and survive through the efforts of nobodies. That’s why I was so shocked to be given such a dead, rich, white man’s version of its history at school. This is a landscape of modest hardworking people. The real history of our landscape should be the history of the nobodies.” Continue reading
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