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Electricity in music and life
The cell is powered by electricity from both sides of charge, and it’s quite powerful. If we were to compare the size of an atom to that of cell, then the concentration of electricity stored there in atoms would be equal to that of a lightning bolt. Life essentially is the continuous process of transferring…
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On tastes in music
Music is subjective. What you may like, others may not. There is simply no bad music except that which is made without inspiration (for commercial gain or the pseudo-values of celebrity vanity) or without professionalism and a focus on high quality (even amateur creations are better when crafted with real originality, balanced mixes, and good…
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Groove is about live
With some exceptions, the groove is good only around living things (music, art, decor?), but, for example, in machines like a fan – on the metal grid, or other technical equipment (this light “wrongness,” “nonlinearity,” Dionysian touch) will feel kinda ridiculous. Why do we like that entropy effect in aesthetics? It’s natural, open, complex, like…
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Amplification of the new
I’ve recently made a small invention for myself, a method to improve the originality of melodies. When I create music or melodies I just play notes on the music keyboard to find perfection, it’s not about drawing on paper like in the past. I record them, look for the right combination and then edit. So…
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Symmetry in aesthetics
Why are rhymes appealing? It’s their symmetry. Symmetry is profound, similar to number and math, and it’s present in all aspects of the universe, from subatomic to macro cosmic. In human existence and creativity, the preference is typically around 80/20 in favor of order and symmetry. However, a small element of chaos exists within us,…
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Style Analysis: Braun, Rams
This is good design, good taste. See, the first thing is the function of the product, no fancy stuff; it is simple. Principles? Minimalism, focus on people’s comfort to use, a lot of attention to all the details and their harmony, how they resonate together, those little color parts… There is a nice visual style…
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Contemporary but real Jazz
Jazz can be not only vintage and classic (78rpm.archive.org collection, for example) and also purely modern (a radio stream link to check). Not jazzy beats, not barely listenable pseudo-intellectual avant-garde, – real jazz as we used to get it, but modern. The first thing that comes to mind is a straight beat there, more solid,…
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GOOD MINIMALISM DESIGN ONLY SEEMS SO BE SO SIMPLE
Good quality minimalism design only seems so be simple, the effort and time spent on it is sometimes is much more than they put on tricked and complex things out there.
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Lo-Fi, representation, post-perception
Contemporary culture is over-saturated with crystallized images: they talk and sell the idea of realism as a supposedly surefire sales stimulant. Lo-fi, on the other side, lets the imagination play out better. More interesting it is, to a certain extent. In general, art, imagination, fuel of passion, even sex drive, is delicious and interesting to…
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Aesthetic Reflections
Aesthetic culture works and develops through infinite cycles of self reflection returning to what was good. Like a double filter that takes worthy thru time, call it, whatever, but not exactly like the ouroboros concept. Sometimes, significant eras shift due to technological/science changes, leaving behind only a little in terms of aesthetics. As a person…
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Got this thing some days ago
Natural tape magnetic distortion and that noise… nice. It was surprisingly well preserved for a thing from 1970s, almost like a new. It got a speaker and a microphone inside, good design overall; gonna give it a try for my own sampling/recording soon. Not as a main tool for tapes’ handling but rather as a…
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Glad I found this
Absolutely fantastic collection of vintage vinyl records from archive.org, I love those old noisy records so much, especially to listen to them in the evenings – cozy evenings.https://great78.archive.orgThanks to all the people who worked on this. What are you waiting for? Go download some as soon as possible, before corporations don’t shut down this paradise…
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Lost & Found: sx64 (2017)
I think, that was not bad album in general, today I checked it on a sone speaker, sounds well, expect a couple of banal (in my opinion) tracks. I remember that album around end of summer in 2017, after relocating to a new city, very far away from the previous one.
