Observation: quality is perceived with friction

We excel at things that bring us strong feedback - the innate feeling of quality, or a feeling of friction when the quality is not high enough. Therefore, ironically, it seems, that we excel at things that “irritate” us most.

June 14, 2025

June 6, 2025

Observation: the music we consider classics enters public domain at around the time we stop receiving student prices for streaming services .

May 31, 2025

"Amen" cadence

Cadence is the core tension in music theory. The most common one is called the authentic cadence - between V and I degrees of the scale. In blues however the cadence of IV to I is more typical.

Fun part is that IV to I is also called “Amen” candence, for its frequent use for “Amen” in hymns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence#Plagal_cadence

December 14, 2024

Follow the white rabbit

Fun fact, Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity from The Matrix) played in the TV series «Matrix» 6 years before The Matrix movie came out.

April 2, 2024

Stop procrastinating by embracing the mess

I put it to Art, because the site looks good, but more importantly because tackling the mess is art! https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/stop-postponing-things-by-embracing-the-mess

February 21, 2024

Copyright on board games

Got inspired by a new project, similar to BoardGameArena: https://www.boardzilla.io/ It turns out board game mechanics can be copied ✍️

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January 29, 2024

#artinstinctive

these anagrams are amazing!

dangeng.github.io/visual_an…

November 30, 2023

Geometry of music

#artinstinctive

2 on one wiki page

One of the papers of Tymoczko was the first music theory paper published by the journal Science.

His web page is very interactive: dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/index.htm…

August 13, 2023

piano compaction

#artinstinctive

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August 7, 2023