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Tim Xiaotian Fan
Musicking Manifesto: Negotiating Universality and Specificity Within a Practice Scope
I. Introduction Music theorists often find themselves navigating a delicate balance: between identifying overarching...
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Tim Xiaotian Fan
There's Something Beyond The Real
-11.19.2024- On Passing Stange By Stew We want the song, but we don't wanna BE a song. We want to be loved, but love will never come if...
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It's all about the balance - right?
-10.27.2024- On Norman, “Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better.” Aesthetics vs. function, durability vs. lightness, artistic...
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Excerpt From Mix Against a Preoccupied Notion
-10.22.2024- What makes mixing so difficult? The answer could be the complications of the signal chain, the details in tweaking...
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A Peek Into The Dream Kingdom - On Gaye Su Akyol Performance
-10.01.2024- It is difficult for me, as well as for many, to distinguish if studying the music before a concert would be conducive to...
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Reflection on Attempting to Define Interactivity
-09.14.2024- On The Art of Interactive Design, Ch. 1 By all means, this passage intrigued me first by its plain and candid tone and...
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Sensation Seized My Sound & On Sol Invictus By Herve Koubi
-09.10.2024- Imaginatively kinetic contemporary and urban dance. Above is the byline on Sol Invictus's poster. By all means, there's no...
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Randomness and Control on Generative Arts and Beyond
-09.08.2024- This reflection was written on Eyeo2012 - Casey Reas By all means, what does 'generative' stand for? And what about...
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On The Balance of Musicking - What is a GOOD mix?
-09.05.2024- It is often said that we first discern, and then we improve. Good vs. bad, lurking in this simplistic balance is the grey...
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On Portrait, Self-Portrait, and Narrative
-08.27.2024- Sometimes I wonder if there is indeed some force behind coincidence - especially when those coincidences are of my...
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Mixing Engineer - A Conductor Behind the Curtain?
-08.26.2024- Today is the first day of my college life. Maybe it is because I was encouraged to (or actually reminded of) keep...
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Trough But Enough
-04.04.2024- Indeed, I experienced a breakdown. And I never expected I would possibly react so drastically. Before starting to describe...
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Question Box: 2024.1-2024.2
-03.15.2024- I like answering questions. Sometimes people who don't know me may assume I am a person of reticence (which is evidently not...
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Nodame et Chiaki
-02.15.2024- "No, you can never catch up with him nor catch music - If you don't face music properly." ---- Franz Von Stresemann, In...
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Tim Xiaotian Fan
Picking Up
-02.04.2024- Yesterday night, or technically this morning at about 4 am, I was planning to record the last projected piece for my first...
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Tim Xiaotian Fan
"Distance"
-01.29.2024- Although the first tedious post I made here is unlike many of the archived ones, which was basically day-to-day rap-up of a...
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Continuity & Uniqueness
-12.12.2023- Haven't been using this notebook (Entenote) to journal for a while (like... it happens to be approximately exactly a year)....
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