Roomtone Field Notes

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  • in reply to: Wooden dummy in an unheated garage through winter? #215

    The dummy should be treated like a wooden instrument, not an indoor appliance. Stable temperature, air around it and no forcing swollen parts are the basic rules.

    Also, a form can look perfect in a video because the camera is not trying to hit you. That is a different kind of room tone.

    in reply to: House of Leaves has a building problem #1480

    I think the layout does more than decorate the horror, it stages it. You are not just reading about a disorienting space, you are forced to navigate one.

    That said, the family story can thin out when the typographic games get too busy. The trick works best when it sounds like an ordinary document slowly losing trust in itself.

    in reply to: The raga is not a mood board #739

    Do you think the jazz comparison breaks down most at tala or at the idea of improvising inside a raga framework? I hear the resemblance in how players learn a language before they speak, but the grammar feels stricter and also looser somehow.

    Maybe that is just my ears asking for subtitles

    in reply to: The raga is not a mood board #737

    Right, and the time association can be descriptive without being mystical. A dawn raga still has…

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