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On Musical Detritus And Memory
It was still winter and the room was cold so I walked over to the radiator, opened the valve, and returned to my desk. A few minutes later the room warmed up and, just to confirm what I could already feel, I walked back over to touch the radiator—blazing hot. Involuntarily, I began singing: The… 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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Ways Of Listening
Listen so quietly that music’s voice whispers listen so intensely that music’s style dissolves listen so quickly that music’s motives unravel listen so openmindedly that music’s aims multiply listen so nonchalantly that music’s sounds wander listen so hopefully that music’s solution sings. Continue reading
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Assessing Creative Strategies For Music Production
“What is the most important thing we can think about in this most extraordinary moment?” -Buckminster Fuller When I’m making progress on a project I take a moment to note what I’ve been doing to move things along. On my most recent music recording, I found that I had worked in distinct stages and that… 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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Inputs and Output / Outputs and Input
How do your ideas come to be— from a single source that branches into many outputs or from many inputs that funnel into a single output? How do your thoughts move— from 12 to 1 or 1 to 12 from multitudes or a solo? Is your knowing like a tangle of wires or one plug… Continue reading
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