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(parenthetical post)
(What do you want this blog to accomplish? I’m not sure it has any practical applications, but it has something to do with exploring creativity, cultivating risk-taking, and practicing the habit of sharing. Who is your audience? Not sure, though some of the followers I do know personally. Do you ‘own your product category’? That’s… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Johann Joseph Fux’s “The Study of Counterpoint” (1725)
“You must try to remember whether even in childhood you felt a strong natural inclination to this art and whether you were deeply moved by the beauty of concords.” – Johann Joseph Fux, The Study of Counterpoint (1725) Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Gerhard Richter On Art
“Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: ‘binding back’, ‘binding’ to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being).” – Notes, 1964-65 • “Art is the highest form of hope.” – Text for catalog of documents 7, Kassel, 1982 • Question: And what is it that connects… Continue reading
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Art About Music: Schematic For The Grateful Dead’s “Wall Of Sound” (c. 1974)
(The system could put out 28,000 watts of sound. To learn more about it: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnnayb/the-wall-of-sound). Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Peter Matthiessen’s “The Snow Leopard”
“Not change, but transformation.” – Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard, p. 15 Continue reading
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On Closed and Open Musics, Or Change Versus Transformation: Toggling Between Arovane and Autechre
One day in 1999 I walked into (the now closed) Kim’s Music and Video in the East Village and listened to some CDs at one of their listening stations. (Remember CDs? Remember listening stations? Remember record stores?) I liked this German IDM artist Arovane (Uwe Zahn) because his music was melodic and had unusual chords.… Continue reading
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