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Notes On Less Is More
“…Who strive—you don’t know how the others strive To paint a little thing like that you smeared Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,— Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says, (I know his name, no matter) – so much less! Well, less is more, Lucrezia. I am judged…” – Robert Browning, “Andrea del… Continue reading
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On Going All In: Ten Reasons To Blog
It’s out of date now—most people prefer reading weekly or monthly newsletters, or trance out scrolling through a billion Instagram photos of others performing their lives and framing the world filtered just so—but blogging old-fashioned text still works, still has a place, especially for longer form content. I like blogs. One of my favorites is… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Trevor Horn In “Pop Music-Creativity And Technology” (2003)
“What’s really interesting these days for me is people’s idea of sound. We’ve got a whole new generation of musicians—people who, for instance, program a beat box without any experience of a real drummer. When we first got beat boxes, we tried to program them to do what a drummer would do. Nowadays people haven’t… Continue reading
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The Sonic Spell: Six Components Of Musical Enchantment
enchantment—the state of being under a spell “Technical processes…are construed magically so that, by enchanting us, they make the products of these technical processes seem enchanted vessels of magical power.” – Alfred Gell, “The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology” in Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics (1992), p. 46 For a while I’ve been… Continue reading
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Ventrilo-Dialogue: A Conversation With A Subway Musician
Subway Musician: People rarely pay attention when I’m playing music. Tom: Oh, okay, I guess we’ve already begun our conversation! SM: Everyone is always rushing by and no one has time for music. T: I would love to hear more about that. But first, thanks for taking the time to talk with me. SM: No… Continue reading
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On Musical Perspective, Depth, And Enchantment In A Mix
While I’m not a visual listener (and definitely not a synesthetic one), I do think about mixes as a landscape that unfolds over time, as you, the listener, ride through it on your the vehicle (bicycle, scooter, car) that is your hearing, your perception, your taste. You notice so many things as the landscape wizzes… Continue reading
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