Resonant Thoughts
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Resonant Thoughts: Mary Oliver’s “Upstream” (2016)
“Writing is neither vibrant life nor docile artifact but a text that would put all its money on the hope of suggestion.” “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” – Mary Oliver, Upstream (2016) Continue reading
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Resonant Thought: Stephen Morris’s “Record Play Pause” (2019)
“Drummers have an odd relationship with time–they hate being late. I know that sounds like a joke but it’s true. Not just in music but in life. Turning up late for an appointment really annoys them. It fills me with a sense of failure. Every drummer I know gets uptight and obsesses about tardiness, as… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Thor Magnusson’s “Sonic Writing” (2019)
“Incarnated as a digital instrument…all your behavior can be redefined using a language of algorithms that can be written and rewritten to change your nature. Indeed you might not feel that you have a nature as such, as a new software upgrade might change your behavior so completely that it does not remind you of… Continue reading
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Resonant Thought: Ferran Adria’s “Notes On Creativity” (2014)
“The ‘why’ is the driving force of all of our work. It means to take nothing for granted, and to ask ourselves if everything, absolutely everything, can be changed, developed, or improved. The ‘why’ is a symbol that reminds us that we don’t know anything, that we have much to learn, and that this… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Damon Krukowski’s “Ways Of Hearing” (2019)
“In the digital studio…everything you do is provisional. That is, it can be redone, reshaped, rebuilt.” Damon Krukowski, Ways Of Hearing (2019), p. 1 Continue reading
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Resonant Thought: Marcus du Sautoy’s “The Creativity Code” (2019)
“A creative thought needs to be balanced with a feedback loop which critiques the thought so that it can be refined and generated again.” – Marcus du Sautoy, The Creativity Code (2019), p. 125. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Roy Christopher’s “Dead Precedents” (2019)
“Underneath that odd veneer of mainstream schizophrenia, subgenres were splitting and dividing like brain-tumor cells. Enabled by recording and sampling technologies that eroded any semblance of cultural cohesion, forecasts of the future and pieces of the past were mixing into an unrecognizable new era.” – Roy Christopher, Dead Precedents, p. 18 (2019) Continue reading
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Resonant Thought: Henri Lefebvre’s “Everyday Life in the Modern World” (1971)
“Does music express the secret nature of everyday life, or compensate, on the contrary, for its triviality and superficiality?…Music is nothing else but number and proportion (intervals, rhythm, timbres) and it is at the same time nothing else but lyricism, profusion and dream. It is all vitality, exuberance and sensuality and all analysis, precision and… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Bertolli’s “Cooking By Hand” (2003)
“ “Most of all, I’ve learned that the art of cooking consists largely of ‘watching’ with all the senses.” “To keep a pear in mind as it ripens is to practice cooking in its simplest form. It is through such observance of any food from the point of purchase throughout its preparation and later in… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jane Brox’s “Silence” (2019)
“‘Silence…stands outside the world of profit and utility,’ wrote Max Picard. ‘It cannot be exploited for profit, you cannot get anything out of it.’ Its relationship to time is far more complex than the simple march of hours allows, and is perhaps, in the end, best likened to fruitfulness. ‘It is not so much the… Continue reading
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