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Could there be such a thing as a Synthesizing Quotient? If so, how might one test for it? Synthesizing can have a gestalt quality to it, but it seems to involve something more than the speed of gestalt image processing. Given their desire to search far and wide, I suspect that hyper-synthesizers are more open to change and instability than... See more

That’s not even comedy, that is the absolute highest form of storytelling.

Told, by our generation’s greatest orator.

Protect Dave Chappelle at all costs.

What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes. The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds. That’s what you really want—to internalize their way of looking... See more

No setlist, no preconceived intentions: this concert was 100% improvised. My focus is on connecting classical music and spontaneous re-composition. I'm improvising on classical piano pieces - by coming from a free idea, not knowing which piece it will going to be later on. Then I'll be developing this idea, exploring its potential and try to find... See more

Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote, “I would not give a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity.”

MS. TIPPETT:

I love that.

MR. LEDERACH:

And that is what the haikuist is after. So I do a variety of things. One of them is that I’ve become much more respectful of, I think, the... See more

Björk: Creating ever changing, context-aware music

Here’s where things start to get a little crazy. A less talked about, but boundary-pushing use case is turning a traditional “static” song into a living, breathing work that can respond to environmental context, its audience, and take on the form of an ever-changing performance.

Björk: “Korsafn”... See more