the delight of specificity - by Nix 🕊

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One of the rarest feelings in the world is resonance. That immediate flicker of recognition when something is finely tuned to you. It deciphers your interiority, feeds your innermost desire to feel seen and known. Exactitude is a virtue, but the process toward it is unbelievably laborious. It requires reading into the footnotes of a person. This level of effort is expensive. So when you see effort applied, you notice. When someone amends themselves to your needs, you feel seen and loved. On my latest visit to New York, Andy introduced me to teenage engineering, a Swedish audio hardware company known for their reimagined take on the portable synthesizer. Their products are built for a mix of purist audiophiles and indie creatives. The TP-7 field recorder, pictured below, is a reimagined music player and tape recorder, described as a sketchbook for sound: Here it is outlined by teenage engineering The workflow has been carefully optimized, whether working with multi-track recordings or j

“The marvels of daily life are exciting: no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” - Robert Doisneau, Le violoncelle sous la pluie, Paris 1957 One of the rarest feelings in the world is resonance. That immediate flicker of recognition when something is finely tuned to you. It deciphers your interiority, feeds your innermost desire to feel seen and known. Exactitude is a virtue, but the process toward it is unbelievably laborious. It requires reading into the footnotes of a person. This level of effort is expensive. So when you see effort applied, you…

the delight of specificity - by Nix 🕊

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