Carla Seidl

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Tag: philosophy

On Nonlinearity

I choose to approach life with a wide lens. Whenever possible, I prefer to seek and gain knowledge via holistic, broad-picture comprehension rather than focus on specific rules. An example: cooking. This is one of my talents, and something I do nearly every day. However, I don’t like the question, “What’s for dinner?” Not only…

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Artist Statement

I am a singer-songwriter, a radio artist, a writer. A teacher, an interviewer, a dancer, a cook. Voice is a central theme and instrument for me, an embodiment of the human potential to resonate by interweaving our own harmonies in the world’s existing layers of sound. A much-migrated bricoleur, I am aware of many ways…

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On Bricolage

I came across the idea of bricolage in Stephen Nachmanovitch’s Free Play: Improvisation in LIfe and Art, where he describes the bricoleur as an artist of limits, making do with whatever is at hand. I related immediately to this with regard to my cooking and my radio work, in which I aim to create the best…

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