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Resonant Thoughts: Witold Rybczynski’s “How Architecture Works: a Humanist’s Toolkit” (2011)
“You arrive at the sublime or poetic not by metaphor, but by making virtues out of necessity. That’s the secret of design.” Diamond Schmitt “The plan is the generator.” Le Corbusier “Values, not rules.” Witold Rybczynski, How Architecture Works Continue reading
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Database: Hans Zimmer On Not Using Presets
“I don’t really have any finished programs in my synthesizers, I just have the neutral program I go from and I set up each sound individually as it comes along, because it will never be right just calling up a preset. It’ll never be as perfect as if you tweaked it and actually spent a Continue reading
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Idea Meditation
Rembrandt, Philosopher in Meditation (1632) “Musical” is sound that compels us to listen intently. Chords are shades of feeling. Craft excellence compounds into aesthetic power and is its prerequisite. Devise a musical system first, then worry about its output. Do whatever you need to get the output you want, then analyze (or not) the musical Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Callum Robinson’s “Ingrained” (2024)
“A Brief Note On: Finding Your Voice Pore over books and magazines, get online, read interviews with designers in different fields and discover, if you can, what moves them to do what they do. Scroll (God help you) through social media. Collect, curate, and digitally scrapbook. Train that algorithm to feed you something nutritious for Continue reading
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