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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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Music Production Mindsets: Using Ableton’s Capture
When I’m browsing and trying out synthesized sounds, wishing that I were doing something else (this happens about 30 seconds into the process—it is what it is), I inevitably end up playing a few chords or a scrap of melody to hear how they sound. I don’t consider this real music because I’m just throwing… Continue reading
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Second Hand Clock
The second hand of the clock at the dry cleaners is racing I notice it as she’s charging my card just over ten dollars the minimum fee most second hands go tick-tick even if the ticking is a silent measure you see its discrete steps a mechanical resistance against forward motion but this hand is liquid a Dali-esque melting… Continue reading
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Arrows Of Attention: Variations On Oblique Strategies
Take yourself out of the mix. Make it sound exquisite. Hide the production’s effects. Make it felt, but not quite audible. Derive everything from a single source. Get to know how the parameter can modulate the overall mood. Picture someone using this or the music being useful to them. Does it still work when… Continue reading
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