The chaos of 2016 underlined our frail grip on personal agency. We are at the mercy of forces way larger than than us—hatred, terror, Trump—and the reality (or some version of it) is that our small part is even smaller than we had previously hoped. We cannot control the world (even when we think we can, it’s luck taking us for a ride)—the best we can do is try to control our minds to mediate our perception of it.
I started meditating a few months ago to cope with increasingly frequent feelings of helplessness, to appreciate the moment I’m lodged in instead of taking it for granted, or worse, dissociating. In retrospect, I guess I was getting a head start on my New Year’s resolutions .made it attractive to my inner tinkerer who considers self-improvement a lifelong process.
My pragmatic appreciation of meditation dovetails soundly with my love of utilitarian music—dance music and are my favorite modes of sound. Since I started meditating I’ve been fostering an interest in ambient music, which I used to consider too boring to withstand . Now I can’t get enough of it as accompaniment to my meditations.
Eno composed this album, a single track, by programming a system of algorithms, as he explains in that aforementioned statement: One rule might say ‘raise 1 out of every 100 notes by 5 semitones’ and another might say ‘raise one out of every 50 notes by 7 semitones’. If those two instructions are operating on the same data stream, sometimes - very rarely - they will both operate on the same note…so something like 1 in every 5000 notes will be raised by 12 semitones. You won’t know which of those 5000 notes it’s going to be.
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