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  • August 25, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Zeynep Tufekci on Asystemic Thinking And Complex Systems

    “We failed to understand that complex systems defy simplistic reductionism…Tipping points, phase transitions (water boiling or freezing), and cascades and avalanches (when a few small changes end up triggering massive shifts) are all examples of nonlinear dynamics in which the event doesn’t follow simple addition in its impacts.” – Zeynep Tufekci Continue reading

    complex systems
  • August 24, 2020

    No. 26

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    Electronic music
  • August 23, 2020

    Books On Attention

    Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff.Nicholas Carr, The Shallows.Cal Newport, Deep Work.Greg McKeown, Essentialism.Nir Eyal, Indistractable.Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing.Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants.Winifred Gallagher, Rapt.Stefan Van der Stigchel, Concentration. Continue reading

    attention
  • August 17, 2020

    No. 78

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    Electronic music, sketch
    electronic music
  • August 14, 2020

    179 BPM

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    beats per minute, sketch, Small Thoughts, speed, speed
  • August 10, 2020

    Still

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    drone, Electronic music, layering, sketch, Uncategorized
  • August 4, 2020

    “Five Celestial Musicians” (Pakistan, c. 400-500)

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    art about music, Uncategorized
  • August 3, 2020

    No. 23

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    Electronic music, sketch, Uncategorized
  • July 31, 2020

    Art About Music: Agostino Carracci’s “Portrait of a Lute Player (Orazio Bassani?)” (1585-86)

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    art about music, lutes, Uncategorized
  • July 30, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher) On Instruments

    “With some of the instruments I’ve used, people would be surprised about some of the results I’ve got out of them because they’re not designed to do certain things and yet, if you put your mind to it and really get to grips with how it’s built and not the manufacturer’s intentions, any machine will… Continue reading

    musical instruments, musical machines, Resonant Thoughts, scripts, Uncategorized
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Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

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