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Resonant Thoughts: Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past” (2020)
“Memory and forgetting: these are the faculties of mind by which we are aware of time, and time is a mystery. In addition, a long tradition holds that the imagination is best conceived as operating with a mixture of memory and forgetting. Creation—things coming into being that never were before—that too is a mystery. Writers… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Lewis Hyde’s “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World” (1983/2007)
“Where there is no gift there is no art” (13). “Usually, in fact, the artist does not find himself engaged or exhilarated by the work, nor does it seem authentic, until this gratuitous element has appeared, so that along with any true creation comes the uncanny sense that ‘I,’ the artist, did not make the… Continue reading
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Music and Energy
Paul Klee, Ancient Sound (1925) Music is all energy. From its oscillating sound waves to its emotional effects on listeners, music encapsulates and compresses energy and then unleashes it back into the world. The orchestra, the choir, the DJ, the percussionist–musicians are energy artisans who use sound to build fleeting structures of feeling. Composing, a… Continue reading
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