The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge
Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.
– David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993
Geek Attitude
The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
Definitely the only way to travel.
– Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.
Kuehleborn's Unfathomable Thoughts
Het gehijg.
Computer Music Magazine number 105 (october 2006) is about House. Not entirely my cup of tea, but who cares. The samples on the DVD were the same as the samples from the september 2005 issue. So I tried to play with the samples as I do every month, this time with the newest Live! 6. Remarkably enough the result was almost the same (although not as good ) as the piece I made in february, that I called “Het gehijg”‘ (The Panting). Probably you’ll think of me as a kind of erotomaniac (which, actually, might be true 🙂 ) but I remember the fun I had when making it. Listening again, the haphazard combining of samples and the intuitive interface of Live trapped me and the result is a scummy arrangement with no creativity at all.
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