technology
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Resonant Thoughts: Jill Lepore’s “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State” (2026)
“farms of servers, clouds of data, AI ecosystems—the allusions are always to the natural world that the machinery is destroying” (5). “Within the Artificial State, nearly every element of public and democratic life—civil society, representative government, an informed citizenry, equality of rights, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and faith in elections—is vulnerable to subversion… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Cory Doctorow’s “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” (2026)
“Art is what happens when an artist has a big, numinous, irreducibly complex feeling in their mind, which they infuse into some artistic medium—a book, a song, a dance, a painting, a photograph, and such—in the hopes of making a facsimile of that big, numinous, irreducibly complex feeling materialize in the minds of people who… Continue reading
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Change One Thing
Paul Klee, Ancient Sound (1925) “The key about a process is that it has time in it.” – Nassim Taleb, Fooled By Randomness When I’m writing new music I sometimes preserve one thing from a previous project, but change it slightly. Let’s say I’ve just finished a work for solo keyboard. Usually what happens is… Continue reading
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Problems of Connection
(Detail from Leonard da Vinci’s Portrait of a Musician, c. 1483-1487) Something I encounter almost daily in the omnimusical realm of music production is the problem of connecting with my instruments, by which I mean DAW software, virtual synthesizers and samplers, and keyboard controllers. I depend on these technologies to make some kinds of music,… Continue reading
