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  • The meaning of music

    Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano.

    What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.

    David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress
    1. ​​The work is what it means​​
    2. ​​No more than a sketch​​
    3. ​​On 'The Master and His Emissary'​​
    • meaning
    • music
  • The job of art is to chase ugliness away

    Bono later explained that not all corporate sponsorships were deals with the devil.

    The 'devil' here is a bunch of creative minds, more creative than a lot of people in rock bands. The lead singer is Steve Jobs. These men have helped design the most beautiful art object in music culture since the electric guitar. That's the iPod. The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

    Bono, Steve Jobs
    • art
    • music
  • I would want to be in that darkness

    If there were a part of life dark enough to keep out of it a light from art, I would want to be in that darkness, fumbling around if necessary, but alive.

    And I rather think that contemporary music would be there in the dark too, bumping into things, knocking others over and in general adding to the disorder that characterizes life (if it is opposed to art) rather than adding to the order and stabilized truth beauty and power that characterize a masterpiece (if it is opposed to life).

    And is it? It is.

    John Cage, Silence
    • art
    • darkness
    • music
  • A haunting, syncopated music

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    "Rappers" on the roof of the electrostatic precipitator knock the accumulated dust free, letting it fall into the storage hopper. Each rapper is the size and shape of a baseball bat. Inside is an electromagnet that pulls a steel plunger upward, then allows it to fall again, producing a sharp knock. The rappers are energized at seemingly random intervals, producing a haunting, syncopated music. (The rhythm seemed more modern jazz than rap.)

    Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape
    • music
    • machines
    • energy
  • Silence

    A Book by John Cage
    archive.org
    1. ​​I would want to be in that darkness​​
    1. ​​The Sound Of Silence​​
    • sound
    • silence
    • music
    • art
    • zen
  • Our Comrade The Electron

    A Talk by Maciej Cegłowski
    idlewords.com
    • technology
    • music
    • futurism
  • Sonic architecture

    An Article by Daisy Alioto
    dirt.substack.com

    Brian Eno is well-represented in iOS. His other apps like Bloom, Trope and Air invite listeners to touch the screen to make their own composition. Reflection ($30.99) is different, there is no interaction for the listener. The interface has three buttons: a pause button, a sleep timer, and AirPlay. Reflection produces endless permutations of Eno’s 2017 album, an hour and five minute long title track.

    “Just calling it an app is akin to saying Falling Water is just a building,” writes one app store reviewer. “I would not call this an app,” agrees another, “Between the music and visuals it’s more like sonic architecture.” The visuals consist of slowly morphing rectangles that only seem to change in the split second you look away from the screen.

    • architecture
    • sound
    • music
  • Don’t Play It Like the Flute

    An Article by Matthias Ott
    matthiasott.com

    Don’t play it like the flute. Play it as if it was the wind whistling through the desert dunes.

    No matter what you love to create, there is something to be learned from the way Hans Zimmer approached the Dune score. We are all striving to create work that is novel, innovative, memorable, and inspiring. To get there, however, we tend to focus on getting things right, on avoiding mistakes, on “being professional”. Yes, it is important to have the commitment, dedication, and attention to detail of a professional. But being right? That will only take you so far. What is much more important is to approach the problem in front of you with curiosity and an open mind. With an urge to explore what can be found beyond the ordinary, beyond the right way of doing things. If you want to create something that nobody has come up with yet, it is important that you try out all the crazy ideas others are afraid to try, that you build prototypes, improvise, and freely play with the materials and the technologies you have at hand.

    • music
    • creativity
    • novelty
    • exploration
    • curiosity
  • Music and Imagination

    A Book by Aaron Copland
    www.goodreads.com
    1. ​​The Gifted Listener: Composer Aaron Copland on Honing Your Talent for Listening to Music​​
    • music
    • imagination
  • The Gifted Listener: Composer Aaron Copland on Honing Your Talent for Listening to Music

    An Article by Maria Popova
    www.brainpickings.org

    The poetry of music, Copland intimates, is composed both by the musician, in the creation of music and its interpretation in performance, and by the listener, in the act of listening that is itself the work of reflective interpretation. This makes listening as much a creative act as composition and performance — not a passive receptivity to the object that is music, but an active practice that confers upon the object its meaning: an art to be mastered, a talent to be honed.

    1. ​​Music and Imagination​​
    2. ​​To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees​​
    3. ​​The core assertion​​
    • music
    • poetry
    • art
    • meaning
  • Enjoying the garden together

    A Quote by Brian Eno
    blog.ayjay.org

    And essentially the idea there is that one is making a kind of music in the way that one might make a garden. One is carefully constructing seeds, or finding seeds, carefully planting them and then letting them have their life.

    What this means, really, is a rethinking of one’s own position as a creator. You stop thinking of yourself as me, the controller, you the audience, and you start thinking of all of us as the audience, all of us as people enjoying the garden together. Gardener included.

    • creativity
    • music
    • making
    • art
    • gardens
  • tree.fm

    A Website
    www.tree.fm

    Tune Into Forests From Around The World. Escape, Relax & Preserve.

    1. ​​Shinrin-yoku​​
    • sound
    • nature
    • trees
    • music
    • microsites
  • An audio professional's take on vinyl

    An Article
    aestheticsforbirds.com

    The analog-digital debate in audio is a longstanding one, and while it is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, I thought I might be able to offer some background as a longtime audio professional and musician. Recordings are a beautiful mix of technical and aesthetic concerns, and this post will attempt to tease out how to navigate these two framings of music recording, especially with regard to the often-oversimplified distinction between analog and digital recordings.

    • material
    • sound
    • music
  • In Conversation With...

    A Dialogue by Trent Reznor
    www.youtube.com
    1. ​​An interesting piece of audio​​
    • music

    Trent Reznor reflects on the creation of his album Hesitation Marks, and on the creative process more broadly.

  • The Microsoft Sound

    A Quote by Brian Eno
    www.sfgate.com

    The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long."

    I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel.

    In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.

    • music
    • constraints
    • time
    • creativity
  • last.fm

    A Profile by Nick Trombley
    www.last.fm
    Screenshot of www.last.fm on 2020-10-07 at 11.32.52 AM.png

    I've been tracking my listening habits with last.fm since I was in high school. As I'm about to turn 30, it's nice to be able to look back on almost my entire adult life – to see how I've changed and how my tastes have changed with me.

    • music

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  3. creativity
  4. meaning
  5. machines
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  17. making
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  1. John Cage
  2. Brian Eno
  3. Brian Hayes
  4. Maciej Cegłowski
  5. Nick Trombley
  6. Trent Reznor
  7. Bono
  8. David Markson
  9. Aaron Copland
  10. Maria Popova
  11. Matthias Ott
  12. Daisy Alioto