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Music Production Mindsets: Building Upon The Faintest Traces
Beginning a new piece of music is the most exciting moment, as long you don’t get ahead of yourself, get bogged down in as yet unnecessary details, and instead stay focused on the task at hand. But what is this task, exactly? For me, it’s being on the lookout for something enchanting. The other day… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Eric Hayot’s “The Elements Of Academic Style” (2014)
“Writing is not the memorialization of ideas. Writing distillate, crafts, and pressure-tests ideas—it creates ideas…They emerge from a process, they represent their becoming, and that emergence, in their final form. Writing is therefore a kind of learning. Active writing should not involve saying things you already understand and know, but instead let you think new… Continue reading
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Iterations
Foxes and dogs. The quick beats the lazy. Jumping over the fence. The jumping fox, the lazy dog. The fence and the dog beat laziness, quickly. Brown dogs, lazy foxes, jumping quick over the fence. The quick brown dog-fox jumps lazily. Quick—the lazy fox-dog jumps! The quick brown fox lazily jumps over the dog. The… Continue reading
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Managing Emotions and Swinging Freely In Creative Work
I watch a fair amount of sports on TV, for reasons including ambient sound, commentators’ endless stats commentary, and because the outcome is always uncertain. (Sport competition gets interesting when it doesn’t go according to plan, which is the best narrative.) For these reasons, even with all the commercials in need of skipping through, sports… Continue reading
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Tech Life
A head count— ten people around me all glued to their screens bodies here minds far way their tech spliting person from the personal less talking one on one without a phone a Recommend a Like a Retweet an LOL (no one laughs like that) social media lacks connection because there’s no algorithm for relating. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Fournel’s “Need For The Bike” (2003)
“To create a desire for something one needs to engage in a labor of human happiness. Need is a demanding and obscure thing that defines the dependence of one person on another. To identify it and want it is to define oneself as a person. That’s the secret of culture, the secret of cuisine, the… Continue reading
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