Resonant Thoughts
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On Resonant Thoughts: Sarah Bakewell’s “At The Existentialist Cafe”
“This experiential music is the one I can speak about with certainty.” – Sarah Bakewell, At The Existentialist Cafe, p. 41. “If I want to tell you about a heart-rending piece of music, phenomenology enables me to describe it as a moving piece of music, rather than as a set of string vibrations and mathematical… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: On Julian Barnes’ “The Noise of Time”
“Music–good music, great music–had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical.” “What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves–the music of our being–which is transformed by some into real music.” -Julian Barnes, The… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: On Fredrik Sjöberg’s “The Art Of Flight”
“Although there is much in this world that is incomprehensible, you can nevertheless discover a meaning as long as you have managed to limit your field of search.” -Fredrik Sjöberg, The Art of Flight Continue reading
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On Resonant Thoughts: Geoff Dyer on Clichés
“Beware of clichés… There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought–even of conception. Many novels [or pieces of music, say], even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.” –Geoff Dyer Continue reading
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