Slow Reads: 7
“The music is not in the notes. It’s in the silence, in the struggle, in the dirt.”
-Alice Coltrane
There’s a charge in the air, a shift that seeps in, in molecules before a storm or applause. Chest tightens, skin feels a size too small. The thing you made has left your body. Part of you wants to hide. The other part wants everyone to look, to really look—no flinching. Vulnerability at its sharpest. Like shouting into a canyon and bracing for what might echo back. That’s what I imagine many of our team and our friends felt as something like this is put into the world. And somewhere in that collision of feelings is the beautiful weight of realising: it’s no longer just yours.
Executive Producer - Sohichiro Matsumoto (Audio Technica/Analogue Foundation) and Directed and Produced by our constant friends and collaborators: Sam King and Nick Dwyer.
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music,”
-Aldous Huxley
Encountering Aldous Huxley’s words from “Music at Night and Other Essays”, brought to mind John Cage’s 4'33". Have you heard of it? It’s an intriguing moment in music history and one that will continue to amuse, anger and/or baffle people today. Read about it here.
A book recommendation! How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka. A compendium of traditional Japanese packaging examples that uses natural materials and common sense to achieve sublime aesthetics. But is is more than that to us. It is a reminder of our connection to nature and of importance and soulfulness of handcraft.
“How does the sense of hearing trigger our imagination? And what role does that play in art?”, is a question posed by MOMA’s latest exploration ins art and how it sits with the Senses. Apparently, closing your eyes is sometimes the best way to experience art.
Photo by Deborah Feingold It’s well worth your time to stop over at In Sheep’s Clothing Hi/fi to read this archival interview with the great Manfred Eicher, who rarely agrees to being interviewed.
