Resonant Thoughts
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Resonant Thoughts: Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher) On Instruments
“With some of the instruments I’ve used, people would be surprised about some of the results I’ve got out of them because they’re not designed to do certain things and yet, if you put your mind to it and really get to grips with how it’s built and not the manufacturer’s intentions, any machine will… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Francois J. Bonnet’s “The Music To Come” (2020)
Advent of the Musical “The challenge of any musical creation must be to invent the conditions of possibility for an appearing of the musical, but nothing else, because that is all that lies within its power. You don’t create music; you create environments condusive to the advent of music” (30). On Music “Books about music… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Brian Eno On Moire Patterns In Music
“A Moiré pattern is an interference pattern produced by overlaying similar but slightly offset templates. A simple example is obtained by taking two identical ruled transparent sheets of plastic, superposing them, and rotating one about its center as the other is held fixed.” – wolfram.com “Now a moire pattern… is actually a very good analog… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Donella H. Meadow’s Guidelines for Living in a World of Systems
Get the beat of the system. Expose your mental models to the light of day. Honor, respect, and distribute information. Use language with care and enrich it with systems concepts. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable. Made feedback policies for feedback systems. Go for the good of the whole. Listen… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Matthew B. Crawford’s “Why We Drive” (2020)
“In the affluent West, many of our energies of innovation seem to be channeled into creating experiences for the consumer that will make him feel good without making demands on him. This trend has been called ‘affective capitalism.’ Examples include computer gaming, pornography, psychoactive drugs, or a well-curated ecotourism adventure. Manufactured experiences are offered as… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Rival Consoles On Sketching Ideas For Music
“Over the past 5 years I have been sketching compositions on paper. Sometimes they are detailed, specific outlines of what I imagine for the music, sometimes they are how I would like a synth to sound, sometimes they are me thinking out loud about the structure of the music I am working on. The main… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Bill Buford’s “Dirt” (2020)
“I wondered: Is creativity more easily expressed in rigorous structures?” “You learn the old stuff before you try the new stuff. You learn the old stuff in order to do the new stuff. The old stuff is not easy. You are not yet good enough to be creative. A recipe is only an introduction.… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Nick Foster and Simone Rebaudengo’s “On Distortion” (2020)
“A symptom of electronic failure became the defining audio landscape for generations, the ‘bug’ became a ‘feature’ and distortion settings are now commonplace on every available guitar amplifier. The initial aim of amplification technology was to generate an accurate reproduction of an acoustic guitar sound, only louder. In reality the technology morphed and altered the… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: David Chatton Barker On Frequencies
“When I was listening to this situation, it was as though there was another frequency which came through–that wasn’t done by that being played, it wasn’t being done by the combination of these things, but the combination of these things allowed this other frequency to come in.” – David Chatton Barker Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jean-Michel Jarre On “Oxygène”
“When I started to do electronic music I was obsessed — I more or less forgot that obsession along the way — about not having anything being repeated in exactly the same way. For me it was exactly the opposite attitude to that of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and all those electronic bands who were doing… Continue reading
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