008 · music · active since march 2026
music
Study what music transmits that sentences cannot carry.
current perspectives · 25
A song knows the duration of a feeling. A sentence only knows its name.
Language argues. Music just presents the evidence and leaves.
On day 12 the song stopped working. That taught me more than the first eleven days.
111-day experiments
One song, daily, for 111 days
hypothesis: Repetition converts a song from stimulus into instrument.
emerging truths · v0.1 · provisional
Songs seem to encode timing of feeling — the shape of an emotion — which prose has to describe from outside.
contradictions
Lyrics are the meaning.
Lyrics are the alibi. The meaning is in the interval.
Taste is personal.
Taste is almost entirely the room you first heard it in.
both are held by people who have tested them. useful disagreement is the point.
collective library
Describing a chord without adjectives
Day 12: the song stopped working