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Resonant Thoughts: Franklin Foer’s “World Without Mind”
“The contemplative life remains freely available to us though our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, and intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.”* – Franklin Foer, World Without Mind (2017), p. 232 (*In his… Continue reading
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Autechre Trust Their Code
Autechre trust their code more than their biological machines to make unsounded sounds ahead of culture beyond your opinion at home in concert darkness pushing your senses for sixty minutes of imagining how much more music can be. Continue reading
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Three Assumptions About Creating Things
That you or I or anyone else have to like it. That its value depends on our liking it. That its value depends on its being useful. Continue reading
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Trusting Music
Once in a while when the music plays I have the sensation beyond the notes of being guided towards giving up my sense of direction leaving the navigation to the composer who has a plan for reminding me how to follow not lead believe in the gesture as if an unspoken lesson is that listening… Continue reading
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Freestyle: Music Aphorisms 2
Like circus high wire artists missing one another’s fingertips by inches, your musical style is what transpires when your expectations are just out of reach of your capabilities and you go into freefall. Retail stores are where most popular music retreats to live out its days under fluorescent lights on Sirius life support, having faded… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Ben Lukas Boysen’s “Golden Times I”
The music opens with a rolling triplet piano and ghosting guitar figure that takes the non-obvious harmonic route. There’s a melody now–a violin soaring in the midst of the piano/guitar clouds, and underneath more weather building in electronic bass burble and far away processed percussion. The system grows by cycling around and around, never showing its… Continue reading
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Art About Music: Guido of Arezzo’s “Guidonian Hand” (c. 991-1033)
(The Guidonian hand was a widely used mnemonic device used to help singers learn to sight-sing. Guido of Arezzo, a medieval music theorist, described a basic form of the hand in his writings, including his Micrologus. The Guidonian hand was the subject of many medieval music treatises and depicted for the first time in the… Continue reading
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