A Quote by Bruce Swedien

Let's get this out in the open once and for all. Here is how I feel about compression... Compression is for kids!!!! — © Bruce Swedien
Let's get this out in the open once and for all. Here is how I feel about compression... Compression is for kids!!!!
No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.
When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.
I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.
The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use). Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand.
Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart.
There is no compression algorithm for experience.
I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.
Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.
I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.
When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.
The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.
So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.
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