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Fragments
Combining your strange tastes often leads to interesting artistic results. There’s no precise slot for art-making in everyday life. Sneak it in. The best-sounding tracks are one-offs. Making multiples of works–for example, by keeping their instrumentation or structure identical–frees you from options. Music lessons: aim for a maximum sound whilst being maximally relaxed. Musical sounds… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ian Penman’s “Erik Satie Three Piece Suite” (2025)
“Certain pieces by Satie are like someone took the lovely opening minutes of Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert and cut away all the subsequent faff and bore and chaff and chore and ego moan.” (54) “IN-BETWEEN All those in-between emotions it’s hard to name. Old time feelings in danger of disappearing. Staring into space vs… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: James Rebanks’s “The Place Of Tides” (2025)
“Our lives are a series of choices – about what we do, and don’t do. Over time we decide what to let go of, what must die, and what we will fight to keep alive. Sometimes these are big, deliberate decisions, other times change happens in a thousand thoughtless little moments” (91). “There is no… Continue reading
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