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Database: Guillaume Bonneau On Preserving The Real Acoustic Behavior Of An Instrument
“The goal with those kind of new resonators or amplifiers is to keep the real acoustic behavior of an instrument. Because it resonates through wood or metal, and then you can capture it with different kind of mics, you have a very huge stereo image. It’s like being in front of someone playing the guitar,… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Leonard Koren’s “On Creating Things Aesthetic” (2024)
“Instinct and intuition. What drives the basic mental operations that are involved with creating? In other words, what is the source of our ‘agile, inspired imaginations’? Primarily our instincts and intuitions. Instinct is the more primal of the two. It comprises thought and behavioral impulses that we share with other members of our herd (or… Continue reading
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Gesture Lessons
(Dioskourides of Samos, 1st century BC) “In cuisine, in music, in sculpture, in painting, it’s everything. Either we like the gesture, either we like the hand, or we don’t. Me, I love it. It might be the sense I like the most. Maybe even more than the sense of taste. And this hand…if we want… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Dennis Yi Tenen’s “Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write” (2024)
“The hand carries the load of value through lived experience. And experience cannot be automated.” “Few artists like to admit to painting by the numbers. Nobody wants to seem ordinary. The occasional visibility of artifice—portable, explainable, documented, transferable, automated—therefore tends to startle or repulse audiences acculturated into the privilege of exceptional human genius.” “The hypothesis… Continue reading
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Keywords: Soundset
Your soundset is a bespoke palette of sounds, toolkit of filigreed production possibilities, collection of go-to enchanting instruments and timbres, and repertoire of effects and signal processing ways, balanced just so. Having a soundset solves the problems of what template to use and how to begin, freeing your attention from which sounds to what shall… Continue reading
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Running As Flow Practice
“The run is white noise, a way to simply experience time as a body, a piston, that exists away from the mind and only in the body as a live reactive presence.” Matthew Futterman, Running to the Edge (2019) At home I move fast and bump into things. Shins knock the couch, flying elbows glance… Continue reading
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