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That Falls Never Stops Falling
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Workflow Advice Developed, Not Given
Be comfortable with solitary work, committing to aesthetic decisions (Is this sufficiently enchanting? Is it balanced just so?), and trusting your own counsel. Always work towards the next thing. The current piece may not be ideal, but take learnings from it into the next one. Use your work as a means to refine your default.… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist As A Vocation” (2022)
“The key component is not the quality of the materials—what’s needed is magic. If that magic is present, the most basic daily matters and the plainest language can be turned into a device of surprising sophistication. Their only recourse is to throw open their garage doors, drag out whatever they have stored away to that… Continue reading
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Thinking Compositionally, Texturally, and Vibely
I often begin a project by playing chords. The instrument sound doesn’t matter so much, although I default to the piano because it’s a sound and way of playing I’m familiar with. What’s useful about chords on a keyboard is their limits: they’re a limited expressive world inside a limited spatial world of 12 pitches… Continue reading
