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One Good Listener
Crash! Think of music like an encounter with two halves crashing together: on one side a set of sounds working as a composite, and on the other side, one good listener taking it all in. Like the case of a tree falling in the forest with no one around to notice it, without one good… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Graham On Putting Ideas Into Words
“If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn’t written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.” Paul Graham, Putting Ideas Into Words Continue reading
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Working In Abundance, Working Towards Thriving
Every so often while making music it occurs to me how I’m working in, working against, and working with, abundance. The abundance is the number of sounds known and unknown in my old 2014 computer. Many of these sounds I haven’t yet encountered, some of these sounds I’ve encountered but forgotten where they reside, and… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Dave Eggers’ “The Every” (2021)
“Because their devices dinged them a few times a minute, their minds were reshaped to the jittery, needy psyche that ruled the digital realm. In a few short decades they’d transformed proud and free animals—humans—and made them into endlessly acquiescent dots on screens. How many people live in a state of aggressive truth-seeking?” Dave Eggers,… Continue reading
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