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Resonant Thoughts: Molly Bang’s “Picture This” (1991/2016)
“Pictures are two-dimensional, whereas we live in a three-dimensional space, with many more dimensions added by our passions and intelligence. When we translate or reform our multifaceted experience into this flat, rectangular format, we play with space” (100). “Space implies time” (108). “…cut paper makes us concentrate on structure, emotional clarity, gesture, and overall cohesion… Continue reading
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Database: Tom Oberheim On Doing The Grey-Area Thing
“First of all, you can’t simply design what the musician wants, because he or she may not know all the possibilities. And on the other hand, you can’t spend all your time only worrying about the oscillator drift and the power supply and all that. You have to do this gray-area thing.” – Tom Oberheim… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Stuart Jeffries’ “Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern (2021)
“The Postmodern Condition was the result of a commission [Jean-François] Lyotard had accepted to write a report on the condition of knowledge for the Conseil des Universités of the government of Quebec, and his immediate worry was that universities were becoming corrupted by the unfettering of capitalism and the consequent reduction in the status of… Continue reading
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Problems of Connection
(Detail from Leonard da Vinci’s Portrait of a Musician, c. 1483-1487) Something I encounter almost daily in the omnimusical realm of music production is the problem of connecting with my instruments, by which I mean DAW software, virtual synthesizers and samplers, and keyboard controllers. I depend on these technologies to make some kinds of music,… Continue reading
