One question, taken seriously: why does one groove land and another fall flat? Music first — that’s where everything below starts. The rest is what got pulled in along the way.
written 2026-04-10 · last edited 2026-07-07
tap any of these to pull the thread
What makes music good
the question
A drummer asking why one groove lands and another doesn’t — why a song holds a room, why a chant works. Everything here starts there.
Working on that question with an AI dragged in physics, computation and biology. Some of it is measured and holds up; a lot of it is unpublished and stays that way for now. It is here because it came out of the music, not because it replaces it.