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Resonant Thoughts: Michael Polanyi’s “Personal Knowledge” (1958)
“I shall take as my clue for this investigation the well-known fact that the aim of a skillful performance is achieved by the observance of a set of rules which are not known as such to the person following them.” “Rules of art can be useful, but they do not determine the practice of an… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Einar Torfi Einarsson’s “Music Is Not” (2019)
“[M]usic is not so fast that adequate control of movements is lost”[8], “music is not art”[9], “music is not appropriate for worship”[10], “music is not always entirely clear”[11], “music is not so likely to use the voice as a conveyor of subjective experience”[12], “music is not solely a twentieth-century phenomenon”[13]… https://www.lhi.is/tolublad-4-music-not Continue reading
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Notes On Unknowns And Conditions For Musical Flourishing
unknown—unrevealed, uncertain, unsettled, undecided “I’ve come to think that attention is the most important thing in a studio situation.” – Brian Eno Sometime last year I was listening to an almost finished track and heard a sound I couldn’t recall making, a sound I couldn’t figure out in retrospect how it came about. Some quality… Continue reading
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Notes On Music Production In Quarantine
Recently, with more time at home, I’ve been thinking through and working on different ways of making music. My usual approach is to improvise my way into something interesting. This always involves playing the keyboard, using a sound that I believe in, and trying to figure out some kind of structure and flow for that… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jean-Michel Jarre On “Oxygène”
“When I started to do electronic music I was obsessed — I more or less forgot that obsession along the way — about not having anything being repeated in exactly the same way. For me it was exactly the opposite attitude to that of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and all those electronic bands who were doing… Continue reading
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