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On Timers And Timeline Finessing
I wanted to set up a timer on my desk. I would be one of those LED displays—preferably with large blue numbers—that I could place off to the side so that with a glance I’d know how long I had been working. I didn’t have a such a timer, so I settled for my phone… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Richard Seymour’s “The Twittering Machine” (2019)
“It is this matrix that our passions, our desires, are accumulated as data, the better to manipulate and manage them. We confess to the machine while we walk, offering little ambulatory prayers. In doing so, we become cyborg beings: an assemblage of organic and inorganic materials, bits of technology, flesh and teeth, pieces of media,… Continue reading
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On Music Production’s Repeated Listenings
“My work is a progressive revelation of something which exists independently of me. Attention is rewarded by a knowledge of reality.” – Iris Murdoch, in Matthew B. Crawford, The World Beyond Your Head, p. 127 “I can’t begin to describe how that simple act of repetition back then made me so ecstatically happy—but it did.… Continue reading
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Searches That Brought You Here: Nils Frahm, David Hockney, and J. Dilla
• Nils Frahm Delay. This search brought you to my post about the music of Nils Frahm. I wrote: “The album alternates between intimate solo piano work that is perhaps Frahm’s signature quietudes sound, and more expansive (and long) pieces built upon rolling electronic keyboard arpeggios swirling in delay-effected, rhythm deluges.” • Hockney perspective. This… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting” (2019)
“I gave up facts entirely in order to have an empty mind for inspiration to come into…You have to practice quiet, empty mind. I gave up the intellect entirely. I had a hard time giving up evolution and the atomic theory but I managed it…And I never have any ideas myself. I’m very careful not… Continue reading
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