Resonant Thoughts
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Resonant Thoughts: Stimming On Music And Empathy
“The biggest achievement for music is empathy. You can transform into someone else’s emotional state. And you can go into situations where it’s incredibly difficult to find the right words. Music in general is somewhere between words…Music morphs you into the one who created it.” – Martin Stimming, Hanging Out With Audiophiles podcast, Episode 89 Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Kyle Beachy’s “The Most Fun Thing” (2021)
“In a world increasingly data driven and surveilled, skateboarding lives beneath scoring and resists all datazation by establishing everything as a performance. It deflects the surveillance state by its primal devotion to documenting and sharing itself, monitoring every possible development, repetition, and failure. It preempts the onslaught of observation by embracing it. To preempt is… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Chad Robertson On Documenting Trial And Error
“I made most discoveries by exhaustive trial and error, over time gathering each lesson into a simple approach based on what I had learned. The approach was not rigidly scientific, but results were documented by concise shorthand notes and photos of the bread on days when something notable was achieved in crust or crumb.” –… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Robert Irwin On Beauty, Perception, And Framing
“Beauty is all around you. You open your eyes in the morning, the world is totally formed. You haven’t done anything other than be. It’s all around you. The whole idea is being able to recognize it, and pay attention to it, articulate it.” I’m trying to make the most beautiful thing and knock your… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Frédéric Gros’ “A Philosophy Of Walking” (2014)
“What is called ‘silence’ in walking is, in the first place, the abolishment of chatter, of that permanent noise that blanks and fogs everything, invading the vast prairies of our consciousness like couch-grass. Chatter deafens: it turns everything into nonsense, intoxicates you, makes you lose your head. It is always there on all sides, overflowing,… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Graham’s “Crazy New Ideas” (2021)
“Few understand how feeble new ideas look when they first appear. So if you want to have new ideas yourself, one of the most valuable things you can do is to learn what they look like when they’re born. Read about how new ideas happened, and try to get yourself into the heads of people… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Aurelio de la Vega’s “Regarding Electronic Music”
“The electronic medium seems to attract a long, motley caravan of young, inexperienced and often unprepared ‘beatnik type’ self-titled composers, who believe that the world began yesterday and they you only have to push buttons and prepare IBM cards to achieve magical results.” – Aurelio de la Vega, “Regarding Electronic Music” (1965) Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Allison Funk’s “On Pruning” (1999)
“Cut it way back. Do not be afraid to pinch the first, the only blossom. The berry cannot thrive in freedom. Have no mercy, gardener…” Allison Funk, “On Pruning” Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Milan Kundera On Composing, Writing, And Automatism
“Today one can compose music with a computer, but the computer always existed in composers’ heads—if they had to, composers could write sonatas without a single original idea, just by ‘cybernetically’ expanding on the rules of composition. Janáček’s purpose was to destroy this computer … My purpose is like Janáček’s: to rid the novel of… Continue reading
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Double Resonant Thoughts: Algorithms To Live By (2016) and Thinking In Bets (2018)
“Even the best strategy sometimes yields bad results—which is why computer scientists take care to distinguish between ‘process’ and ‘outcome.’ If you followed the best possible process, then you’ve done all you can, and you shouldn’t blame yourself if things didn’t go your way.” Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By “What… Continue reading
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