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Resonant Thoughts: Vincenzo Latronico’s “Perfection” (2025)
“Anna and Tom had grown up with the notion that individuality manifested itself as a set of visual differences, immediately decodable and in constant need of updating” (19). “It was the admission stamp into a community bound by a shared reality, or quasi-reality” (21). “They lived a double life. There was the tangible reality around Continue reading
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Database: Claire M Singer on Writing By Improvising
“Improvising is hugely important in my writing process. All of my pieces, whether on organ or cello, come from me sitting and improvising on the instrument and through this process I capture the parts l like (whether writing it down or recording it) and over time it becomes a set scored piece.” Claire M Singer Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Richard W. Hamming’s “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn” (1997)
“How are you to recognize ‘fundamentals’? One test is they have lasted a long time. Another test is from the fundamentals all the rest of the field can be derived by using the standard methods in the field” (9). “Creativity seems, among other things, to be ‘usefully’ putting together things which were not perceived to Continue reading
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Musical Remodeling as Defamiliarizing
Recently I’ve been remodeling music I haven’t yet released. I like the original tracks as they are, but remodeling is an opportunity to build a surprise, a chance to hear what happens when one’s prior work is bracketed and used as material for new music. The most exciting part of remodeling is defamiliarizing a track Continue reading
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