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Resonant Thoughts: Adam Gopnik’s “The Real Work: The Mystery Of Mastery” (2023)
“At the core of the mystery is a lesson we can too easily miss. It has to do with the way one time talks to another. We talk about things we prize, art above all, as ‘timeless.’ It’s the most familiar generalization we make: it’s a timeless picture, a timeless melody, or even a timeless… Continue reading
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Database: James Holden On Process As A Living System
“I usually sneak it up on myself, like I start designing an instrument and then the songs come out by accident as a result. It’s weird–sometimes I’ll go in the studio and something will come out by itself, but the process and the method of it is really important to me. I have to have… Continue reading
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On Seeking Beautiful Outputs
“I’m lazy; that’s why I like machines. They do things I would not have thought of. I can put things into them, and then I can see something happen there beyond what I would have had the time, the taste, or the endurance to have produced myself. I usually don’t want to slavishly make something… Continue reading
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Art About Music: Alma Thomas’ “Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music” (1976)
“Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music” (1976) by Alma Thomas Continue reading
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Database: Seth Drake On Harmonic Coloring
“Let’s say you have a bunch of hot AF signals that hit a limiter and now, suddenly, these waveforms have gone from being big and round and way over zero to being square and sitting right at zero. Anytime you have square wave forms on the sides of those squares–as the wave transitions from the… Continue reading
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In The Moment Music Production Constraints
“I feel the important part of making a track is to recognize the point where you have to listen to what the track wants. This point comes in around 40–50% of the whole process, where it’s not so much about what you want with the track anymore, but what the track wants you to do… Continue reading
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