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Database: Aphex Twin On Working Out New Musical Languages And Reconfiguring The Brain
“I work intuitively. I actually prefer it if I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. If you’ve got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you’re going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don’t know where the notes are, because then you do it… Continue reading
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Database: Moritz von Oswald On Rhythms That Stand Still
“We used patterns that weren’t really defined, but they work with each other and are constantly changing. It’s a state where the music is not moving, just kept like a Polaroid, in a way, where you have something going on rhythmically, but it actually stands still at the same time.” Moritz von Oswald Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Christopher Alexander’s “The Nature of Order” (2002)
“What is order? We know that everything in the world around us is covered by an immense orderliness. We experience order every time we take a walk. The grass, the sky, the leaves on the trees, the flowing water in the river, the windows in the houses along the street–all of it is immensely orderly.… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Anna Wiener’s “Uncanny Valley” (2020)
“Listening to EDM while I worked gave me delusions of grandeur, but it kept me in a rhythm. It was the genre of my generation: the music of video games and computer effects, the music of the twenty-four-hour hustle, the music of proudly selling out. It was decadent and cheaply made, the music of ahistory,… Continue reading
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Newsletter Recommendation: Letters From An American
Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American is a daily newsletter (text and audio) about the history behind today’s politics. Continue reading
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