Resonant Thoughts
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Resonant Thoughts: Philip Brophy’s “100 Modern Soundtracks” (2004)
“The ‘nature of sound’…is not a/any/all sound’s essential or absolute guise (as such divination is impossible) but its irreducible behavior, distinctive apparition and ingrained purpose. It eschews any essence as to what it might be—as if it is a metaphor pointing to some sonic soul that has motivated the act of description—and instead accepts its… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Richard E. Nisbett’s “Mindware” (2016)
“The most important thing I have to tell you—in this whole book—is that you should never fail to take advantage of the free labor of the unconscious mind.” Richard Nisbett, Mindware (2016) Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Richard Sennett’s “The Craftsman” (2009)
“As a performer, at my fingertips I experience error—error that I will seek to correct. I have a standard for what should be, but my truthfulness resides in the simple recognition that I make mistakes…I have to be willing to commit error, to play wrong notes, in order eventually to get them right.” “If the… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ólafur Arnalds On “The Player Pianos Part II”
“You get things that wouldn’t make sense if you were actually playing them. So you would never think of them. Because writing and improvising on a piano is very much based on muscle memory. But with this you get rid of all that. You get this pure, unrestricted creativity.” Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Grant Snider’s “The Shape Of Ideas (2017)
“Minimalism is simple. Got rid of the unnecessary. Create structure. Stop searching for hidden meaning. Embrace what is solid. Lose yourself in patterns. Don’t fear empty space. Stay clean. Be bold and colorful. Don’t be too expressive! Less is more. But less is more difficult than it looks.” -Grant Snider, The Shape Of Ideas, p. 55. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Carlo Rovelli’s “The Order Of Time” (2018)
“What we call ‘time’ is a complex collection of structures, of layers” (4). “There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them” (16). “Time passes more slowly for the one who keeps moving” (38). “Time is the measurement of change” (63). “Time is nothing but the registering of movement” (64). “We… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ian Bostridge’s “Schubert’s Winter Journey ” (2015)
“For all of us, unless we’re making a special and determined effort of analysis, our encounter with music is more episodic and even cavalier, less relentlessly theoretical—even when we’re listening to a piece from the great tradition that presents itself as musical argument, a Beethoven symphony for example, or a Bach fugue. Within as diffuse… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Deckle Edge’s “Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
“Against a rising tide of automation and increasing digital complexity, we are becoming further divorced from the very thing that defines us: we are makers, crafters of things. When our lives once comprised an almost unbroken chain of movements and actions as we interacted physically with the material requirements of our existence, today we stare… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Erling Kagge’s “Silence” (2017)
“Negative beauty—by virtue of all that is not present.” “I am constantly interrupted, interruptions engendered by other interruptions. I rummage around in a world that has little to do with me. Attempt to be effective until I realize I won’t get any further regardless of how effective I’ve become.” “The essential thing is the contrast… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ulf Olson’s “Listening For The Secret” (2017)
“There is…an interesting dialectic of tradition and Avant-Garde at the heart of the Grateful Dead’s music, a dialectic that might be generated by the larger dislocations taking place on a worldwide scale, but enacted within a community, forming around a group of musicians, that would gradually grow until it would become a national, and to… Continue reading
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