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Resonant Thoughts: Peter Schjeldahl On Outsider Artists And Critics
“Every good artist is an outsider artist, in a way that counts; and every good critic is an outsider critic, in a way that counts. Good art and good criticism are not ‘practices’—that horrible word, so prevalent in art babble lately. Practices are professional specialties. Associated with art, the word assumes settled social agreements on Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: David Hockney On Layering Time
“My main argument was that a photograph could not be looked at for a long time. Have you noticed that? You can’t look at most photos for more than, say, thirty seconds. It has nothing to do with the subject matter. I first noticed this with erotic photographs, trying to find them lively: you can’t. Continue reading
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Keywords: Instrument Agnosticism
Pompeo Massani, The Itinerant Musicians (1880-1889) If you’re a musician, you’re devoted to a single instrument you’ve learned to a depth that it feels expressive. But a music producer’s devotion is diffuse–it has more than one object. It’s in this way that musicians who compose by producing are instrument agnostic. Agnostic not in the sense Continue reading
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Musical System Lessons
“The album would not exist, really, without convert to harmony […] This system lets you produce a kind of trace, and its unreliability gives you this funny little grit of chaos that you can use to grow something cool.” Drew Daniel “I developed this system of taking samples of already existing components and extracting them Continue reading
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