January 2012
23 posts
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Life is like riding a bicycle—in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
-Albert Einstein
“A person isn’t who they were during your last conversation with them, but who...”
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Rainer Maria Rilke
(via leadingtone)
“Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything.”
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Chick Corea (via leadingtone)
“People who create things of value deserve to be rewarded for that creation, no...”
– Franklin Veaux (via chipotle)
The App Store Instrumentarium
acousmata:
I recently bought an iPad for the primary purpose of exploring the device’s potential as an experimental musical instrument. After about a week of research, I’ve discovered some very promising and creative software that suggests that the iPad can indeed function as a very powerful means of sound control and exploration. However, I was surprised how difficult it was, amidst the glut of...
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Made this the other day. I thought about it, and...
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“If you are afraid to play a wrong note, the other notes sound less right.”
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Clifford Curzon
(via leadingtone)
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Aaron makes music →
Since my chest still won’t allow me to play trumpet, I’ve been exploring some new ventures in music-making. Everything’s a process. I figured that since I make a lot of stuff on the regular, I should at least have some of it available somewhere for folks to take a listen. For now, it’s soundcloud via facebook. My plan calls for regular updates. The link above will take...
“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at...”
– St. Augustine (via glassnightingale)
“It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really...”
– G. K. Chesterton, All Things Considered (via Kelly Hogan (via austinkleon)
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December 2011
16 posts
“I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I...”
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Vladimir Horowitz (via leadingtone)
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WatchThis is a clip from a short documentary my friend Shane is making. The dock scene was shot during a weekend we spent up in Vermont a couple months ago.
The waves peaking through the boards reminded me of a keyboard, and many times that weekend I imagined what it would sound like put to music—rapidly ascending melodic lines arrhythmically travelling with the movement of the waves, above a...
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“It’s nice to believe that something as magnificent as the high five could be...”
– Jon Mooallem, “Who invented the high five?” (via austinkleon)
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“At about the age of six or seven, I realized that of all the invisible powers...”
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Herman Hesse (via eudaimonist)
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“It’s one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than...”
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Stravinsky
(via leadingtone)
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leadingtone:
Schubert - Impromptu in G-flat...
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There’s something I love about recording...
“I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case and throw in...”
– Wes Montgomery
(via jazzpages)
November 2011
18 posts
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“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work...”
– Wendell Barry, “Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms,” 1982, from Standing by Words: Essays (Saw this quote in my Tumblr feed this morning, broken up into verse, and titled “The Real Work.” The quote, like most quotes, is much, much richer in context.)
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“One reason I make sculpture is that I have stared long enough at the glowing...”
– Edward Tufte, “Touchscreens have no hand” (via austinkleon)
I Believe In The Internet - The Content Industry... →
themadeshop:
“The Internet is not just a series of pipes. It’s core architecture embeds an assumption about human nature. The Internet is designed to empower individuals not control them. It assumes that the if individuals are empowered, they will do the right thing the vast majority of the time. Services like…
“It can’t be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there...”
– Thelonius Monk, quoted in Bill Crow’s From Birdland To Broadway (via)
