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Creativity As Additive Or Subtractive?
Usually when I’m working on something—a piece of music, a piece of writing, a salad—I’m thinking about what I can add to it to make it better. For a long time my default stance was thinking that I didn’t have enough raw material. So I would compensate by putting in too much, and the predictable… Continue reading
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An Improvisation
Yesterday’s piano improvisation began with the usual frustration of looking for new chords—this time something around B minor. Just when I was sure I would find nothing, I began playing a repeating interval of a 3rd and a 12th above a G, then moved them around. I liked the repetition and stasis of the changing… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Miyamoto Musashi’s “The Book Of Five Rings” (c. 1645)
“Hit with your body, and hit with your spirit, and hit from the Void with your hands, accelerating strongly.” Miyamoto Musashi, The Book Of Five Rings (c. 1645) Continue reading
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Music Listening 2
Music sounds different in the morning or late at night when you’re impatient or even-tempered when it’s your own or a stranger’s when you imagine her listening when it’s bonafide like Bach or played by the guy on the train who sings Neil Young badly when you’re wishing you were more skilled at listening when… Continue reading
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Searches That Brought You Here: Nassim Taleb, David Abram, Walter Percy
• Thomas, I’m curious what your take is on Taleb. This search brought you to my post on the musical applications of some of the ideas from Nassim Taleb’s book Antifragile. I wrote: “Tinkering is a process of trial and error that allows one to make many small mistakes or incur small losses. The mistakes… Continue reading
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