Resonant Thoughts
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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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Resonant Thoughts: George Coleman Gow’s “Rhythm: The Life Of Music” (1915)
“At the outset we have to remind ourselves that rhythm is not a factor essentially musical. Psychologically it is the apotheosis of the act of attention— attention at its greatest tension.” – George Coleman Gow, “Rhythm: The Life of Music,” in The Musical Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 4 (October 1915), pp. 637. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Tristan Garcia’s “The Life Intense” (2018)
“I hear a piece of music, and out of nowhere I’m surprised by an unexpected change of tuning, key, or rhythm. This variation might shake my ear out of its unfeeling slumber, a numbness brought on by what were all-too-predictable changes in the music at hand. Now I get the feeling that the piece is… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Curtis Roads’ “Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic” (2015)
“In the real world of acoustic instruments, every note and drum stroke is unique. Thus we seek to avoid the bland impression of repeated sounds that never change. It is worthwhile to take the trouble to articulate a unique identity for each object by creative editing and processing. This includes stamping each sound with a unique… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” (2018)
“If the Nineties were defined by the loop (the ‘good’ infinity of the seamlessly looped breakbeat, Goldie’s ‘Timeless’), then the twenty-first century is perhaps best captured in the ‘bad’ infinity of the animated GIF, with its stuttering, frustrated temporality, its eerie sense of being caught in a timetrap. This frustrated, angular time–and the enjoyment of… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Kodwo Eshun On Listening
“Sometimes listening to music is more about listening to your own ways of listening, hearing your own ways of hearing. Wondering what you’re hearing. And sometimes you need time to do it, and that’s when the anxiety sets in. Everyone around you says that listening is time-wasting, but you have to remind yourself that listening… Continue reading
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