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Resonant Thoughts: Brian Eno On Sequencing (1995)
“When I make loops on a sequencer, I always try to play them all the way through, so I play the whole part, then I listen to it, and quite often I find a long section that I like. Loop that, cut it up so that the loop doesn’t recur regularly. The idea of always… Continue reading
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Ear Reset
A few weeks into the quarantine, with barely a car on the road or people on the sidewalks, I’m hearing my neighborhood’s soundscape more acutely. Where I used to spend a lot of time blocking out the city’s sounds (with earplugs, music, or avoidance), now its decibels have fallen back down to nature’s mix level. … Continue reading
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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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