Eric Carl is a designer and artist.
Last month I had the opportunity to speak at THU’s Sound & Music , an online event featuring sound and music professionals working in domains such as film and games. The talk and many others are currently available with a very reasonably priced ticket on the THU platform . Many thanks to the people at THU for the invitation and for putting such an inspiring event together! THU were also kind…
Some years ago during a lunch outing with colleagues at Ableton, a passing joke was made along the lines of “Yeah, Live is very wabi-sabi.” Live being Ableton’s rather technical and modernist music-making software, and wabi-sabi being a traditional Japanese aesthetic theory anchored in impermanence and subjectivity. While the quip was a sarcastic comment made in jest, it did stick in my head a…
If you’re extremely familiar with songwriter Bill Callahan, you might already have read the title of this post with the same delivery as in his song Writing . If not, that’s okay, but perhaps consider giving that quality piece of music a listen. The last time I wrote a blog post was December 5th, 2012, which was, oh, only 13 years ago. It was also on a different website, which I’d be happy to link…