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Resonant Thoughts: Donella H. Meadow’s Guidelines for Living in a World of Systems
Get the beat of the system. Expose your mental models to the light of day. Honor, respect, and distribute information. Use language with care and enrich it with systems concepts. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable. Made feedback policies for feedback systems. Go for the good of the whole. Listen… Continue reading
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From Fretting To Positioning To Encounter Interestingness
I used to fret about how I would begin a musical project. My way out of this quandary was to make recordings based on a single sound sample—a Tibetan singing bowl for Singing Bowl Music, Tibetan finger cymbals for Finger Cymbal Music, a Thai gong for Gong Music, crotales for Organ and Crotales Music, and… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: R Beny’s “Alpenglow” (2020)
(Parts almost going out of sync, but pulsing together.) (Brett’s Sound Picks 2020) Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Matthew B. Crawford’s “Why We Drive” (2020)
“In the affluent West, many of our energies of innovation seem to be channeled into creating experiences for the consumer that will make him feel good without making demands on him. This trend has been called ‘affective capitalism.’ Examples include computer gaming, pornography, psychoactive drugs, or a well-curated ecotourism adventure. Manufactured experiences are offered as… Continue reading
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Sound Design As Mind Design
One of my music production routines is to build a sound from scratch in a VST synthesizer and then make music with it immediately. I do this most days and now that I think about it, the routine is like a training session, the goal of which is to learn how to produce music from… Continue reading
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