{"id":279,"date":"2023-08-01T21:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:21:54","slug":"readiness-to-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/01\/readiness-to-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"readiness-to-hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-twentytwentyone-border\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tool-1-1024x735.png\" alt=\"slide describing Heidegger's concept of tool\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tool-1-1024x735.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tool-1-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tool-1-768x551.png 768w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tool-1-1536x1103.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tool-1.png 1560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From <em>Applied Philosophy: Philosophy of Technology 1 <\/em>on<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/DMLab\/aheidegger\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/DMLab\/aheidegger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slideshare<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">spent all morning deciding on audio software. last significant audio piece i made (13? years ago) i used <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reaper.fm\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reaper.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reaper<\/a>, a great, free digital audio workspace. but that was back in my PC days, and i wasn\u2019t keen on the lack of native plugins for Mac, which i now use exclusively. so back to good ol\u2019 little <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/index.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Audacity<\/a> for me. it\u2019s simple, it looks basic and not cartoony (ahem, Garageband, sorry), and after a few hours i\u2019m getting the hang of it again. i\u2019ve got about 37 seconds that i like! not mastered, just laid out. tool selection is critical, as is consistent practice with tools. so many years since a real multi-track piece have passed that i am no longer fluent with my tool. but my ear has been in training all along, my discernment is ever in development, and my  attunement with creative flow. i would like to align this ease of composing and making with my capabilities with the interface. right now it&#8217;s a lot of fumbling with F5 and command + 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spent all morning deciding on audio software. last significant audio piece i made (13? years ago) i used Reaper, a great, free digital audio workspace. but that was back in my PC days, and i wasn\u2019t keen on the lack of native plugins for Mac, which i now use exclusively. so back to good ol\u2019&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/01\/readiness-to-hand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">readiness-to-hand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}