Resonant Thoughts
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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: Michael Crawley’s “Out Of Thin Air” (2021)
“To ‘follow someone’s feet’ is to share their rhythm and to feed off their energy, and leading or pacemaking is therefore often described by the runners in Addis as ‘bearing someone else’s burden.’ The runners are expected to learn to share their energy and to improve together.” “When runners ask, ‘Condition yet alle?‘ (‘Where is… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Sophie on The Molecular Level of Sound
“It’s about getting to the molecular level of a particular sound — realizing what that sound actually is made of, and why it behaves a certain way when processed or cooked. Then you use those molecules to build new forms, mixing and reappropriating those raw materials, and of course, it should be bloody delicious.” –… 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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Resonant Thoughts: Christopher Alexander’s “The Timeless Way of Building” (1979)
“Each pattern helps to sustain other patterns. “The quality without a name occurs, not when an isolated pattern occurs, but when an entire system of patterns, interdependent, at many levels, is all stable and alive. We may see the sand ripples anywhere where we choose to put loose sand under the wind. But when the… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: John Berger’s “Portraits” (2015)
“The gestures come from his hand, his wrist, arm, shoulder, perhaps even the muscles in his neck, yet the strokes he makes on the paper are following currents of energy which are physically his and which become visible only when he draws them. Currents of energy? The energy of a tree’s growth, of a plant’s… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Alessandro Baricco’s “The Game” (2020)
“There is a deep-rooted suspicion that the perception of the world that has been shaped by new technology is missing a whole segment of reality, perhaps the best part: the one that pulsates under the surface of things, where only patient, laborious, and sophisticated attention will lead. This is a place for which a word… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Morley’s “A Sound Mind” (2020)
Everyone could find what they wanted now, quickly and efficiently, guided by genial, anonymous calculations, by ever-increasing playlists, by a proliferation of genres that almost bureaucratically processed and filed music for driving, sleeping, motivating, studying, eating, chilling, isolation, concentrating, shopping, swapping, dancing, night-time, Thursday. It became a world that was looking for user-friendly tips and… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Leonard Koren’s “Musings Of A Curious Aesthete” (2020)
“Beauty is typically associated with bringing new things into existence: A beautiful painting. A beautiful musical composition. Beautiful architecture…But beauty, I realized at that instant, can also be created and/or restored by removing things from existence. Like eliminating the visible consequences of thoughtless human action. That is what I did when picking up litter in… Continue reading
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