Contraints & Creativity: Recent Episodes
Daniel Berlinger
Any beginning is where hope lives. Nothing has gone wrong. It's the next chance to get it right, to reach a new level. To redeem previous efforts where things went awry. A beginning is where a dream can come true and all your expectations can be fulfilled.
Exploring the process of creativity.
David Lewitt is a percussionist and a drum educator. He is a staff accompanist for the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance and an adjunct faculty for the College’s School of the Arts. And an old and cherished friend. Odd time signatures, teaching, students, and some stories.
What I think makes a good decision, making up some rules, and how contraints drive creativity.
https://matt-rickard.com/list-of-all-oblique-strategies
I discuss my everyday bag, and how I organize the inside, and how this ties into the theme of constraints and creativity. More everyday gear stuff soon.
There’s a difference between the useless “be perfect” and the journey to always improve. Reaching for perfection contains greatness. Being perfect is, atmo, unobtanium.
- Audeze: Michael Brauer on Playing the Console like an Instrument
- Audeze: Michael Brauer on Transitioning to ITB Mixing
- Audeze: Mary Halvorson, Julian Lage and Miles Okazaki: Jazz Guitar Gear Hang
I talk about CnC's direction, though I expect it to develop quite a bit. Apple has stopped making iPods and I recall the Pod Wars as mentioned in Steve Levy's book, The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness. Lastly, I reminice about what some of my first experiences were like with the first iPod and what's changed, at least a little, since moving music listening to phones.