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Resonant Thoughts: Robert Farrar Capon’s “The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection” (2002)
“Technique must be acquired, and, with technique, a love of the very processes of cooking. No artist can work simply for results; he must also like the work of getting them.” (…) “Interest in results never conquers boredom with process.” Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb Continue reading
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Keywords: Version 1.0
(Photo: J.S. Bach’s sketch for the first prelude of The Well-Tempered Clavier) Version 1.0 of a track feels the most unsettled because you don’t know where you’re going with it yet; it’s still too new. What is this musical thing? This state of feeling is exemplified by improvising. When you improvise you’re making it up Continue reading
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Database: A.G. Cook On Synthesis With An Inherent Musical Goal
“I was just toying around with an ultra basic [Native Instruments] Lazerbass patch. It can be what sounds sort of FM [synthesis]-y, but you can add too many beating layers to it and end up with this kind of pretty atonal sound. Because that’s on a dial, you’ve got something harmonic on one side and Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis Of Democratic Capitalism” (2023)
“The legitimacy of any system always depends on performance. In the end, people will cease to trust a system that does not work for them.” “The rise of demagogic nationalism and authoritarianism in high-income democracies—the core of today’s political crisis—can be attributed in significant part to…economic failures. The problem is not just the economic failures Continue reading
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Keywords: Vibe
(Photo: Khashayar Kouchpeydeh) Short for vibration, vibe poetically describes music’s most intangible yet palpable quality: its feeling. Vibe is how music feels over time, how its vibrations sustain a mood, conjure an aura, and keep an affect aloft like smoke billowing on a windless day. Describing a music’s vibe is difficult and requires assigning a Continue reading
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