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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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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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