Eelco Grimm has always had a fascination for how the human brain works, both from a psychological and a philosophical point of view. A scientific paper that showed how music reduces cognitive dissonance inspired him to write a deep essay on human consciousness. The writing took a few years and it’s become a text full of mental vistas. A long read to cherish.read more >
A couple of weeks ago I had a deep insight about why high quality audio offers listeners such a compelling experience. It goes like this: “Since man is mortal, his deepest desire is immortality. As a result, to witness an illusion of immortality can evoke a deep emotion of consolation. Written language helped mankind aread more >
In these ‘dark months’ of the year, the Eindhoven housing corporation Trudo and the Rotary Eeckaerde have joined forces to relieve the impact of homelessness. With their “everyone a roof” campaign, donations are collected for a barrista project where former homeless people are trained to run a coffeebar in buildings of Trudo. They acquire importantread more >
You probably know the saying “if it looks likes like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck”. It refers to a method of finding the most likely explanation for an observation, without offering proof. It is often misused to make a political statement in theread more >
The value of quality is perhaps one of the most important ones in life, and it certainly is key to people who care for music and audio. The smallest adjustment in timing can turn a nice interpretation into a breathtaking performance. Personally I have always been fascinated by how extremely small changes in an audioread more >
On February 7th, the Swedish statistician Hans Rosling died, at the too young age of 68 years. He inspired me a lot with his TED talks, in which he passionately presented beautiful statistical graphs that show the great progress that all corners of the world have seen in the past century. Health, income, babies perread more >
