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Resonant Thoughts: Robert Irwin On Beauty, Perception, And Framing
“Beauty is all around you. You open your eyes in the morning, the world is totally formed. You haven’t done anything other than be. It’s all around you. The whole idea is being able to recognize it, and pay attention to it, articulate it.” I’m trying to make the most beautiful thing and knock your… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Nadia Struiwigh’s “-5” (2021)
(The 2021 Playlist.) Continue reading
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Process, Not Outcome
“Musical processes can give one a direct contact with the impersonal and also a kind of complete control, and one doesn’t always think of the impersonal and complete control as going together. By ‘a kind’ of complete control I mean that by running this material through the process I completely control all that results, but… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Frédéric Gros’ “A Philosophy Of Walking” (2014)
“What is called ‘silence’ in walking is, in the first place, the abolishment of chatter, of that permanent noise that blanks and fogs everything, invading the vast prairies of our consciousness like couch-grass. Chatter deafens: it turns everything into nonsense, intoxicates you, makes you lose your head. It is always there on all sides, overflowing,… Continue reading
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