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Resonant Thoughts: Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” (2017)
“It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.” “Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers,… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Michael Crawley’s “To The Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas” (2024)
“You have to be able to feel where the edge is in particular training sessions, to have a sense of pace from the catch of your breath and the weight of your legs, and you have to be able to be attentive to the background fatigue that is the constant companion of any athlete.” “‘You… Continue reading
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Database: Sean Booth On Accessing That Space and Maxing It Out
“I’m quite often trying to access that space that I was in before I knew how any technology worked, when I was hearing records and imagining what the sounds might be. That to me is a really valuable thing.” “Just get the little thing and fucking max it out. You know, get it doing shit… Continue reading
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Keywords: Genre & Style Thinking
Genre & style thinking is reflecting on the kind of music you could be making. You may find inspiration in what you listen to, but the music you could be making is more than the sum of your fandoms. In fact, it probably isn’t like anything you already know. Try to imagine its sound— its… Continue reading
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Database: Carter Harman On Semi-Automatic Clichés
“The reason those bleeps and chirrups and the rest of the clichés appear is that they are semi-automatic, and turned on with a minimum of effort, to fill in embarrassing gaps in the composition. But finding fault with the medium because synthesizers are capable of making bad music is like faulting all piano music because… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Annie Dillard’s “Teaching a Stone to Talk” (1981)
“At a certain point you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing but those things only, those created objects,… Continue reading
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