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Database: Stars Of The Lid On Sampling Parts To Make New Instruments
“Most of the ‘strange noises’ are just guitars, strings and horns recorded in different ways. I have a tendency to record a bunch and then just sample parts of what I’ve done. It’s all about laying instruments and making new instruments out of the combination of different instruments’ decay and timbre. But the important part… Continue reading
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Perception Lessons
(Photo: Mathilda Khoo) “You see, if you live by perception, as all artists must, then you sometimes have to wait for a long time for your mind to tell you the next step to take.” Agnes Martin “Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.” Alva Noe… Continue reading
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Same Walk, Different Music
Tipper, “Dreamsters” (2014). David Tipper is the best kind of artist—someone not easily pigeonholed, and someone whose work creates a unique aesthetic world. Such artists are rare in our time–Right?–when so many producer-composers sound similar to one another. But Tipper ins’t worried about fitting in. He’s an outsider about whom little is known. I like… Continue reading
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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
