# Carlos Alberto Alonso

> Musician. Designer. Writer.


## Posts

- [Feliz cumple Carmen](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/feliz-cumple-carmen/): Mi abuela, Carmen Vásquez Pérez de Alonso, nació un día como hoy de 1912, en la aldea de Tosende, en España.
- [Miller’s Contemporary World](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/millers-contemporary-world/): Reading Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, I’m drawn by how contemporary his world feels, although it is clear that the author isn’t intending to present the story around this focus, and certainly not from the perspective of a reader almost a hundred years in the future.
- [The Thirteenth Floor](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-thirteenth-floor/): We embarked on the SS Cabo San Roque from the port of Buenos Aires in October of 1976.
- [Horses at the Border](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/horses-at-the-border/): Driving through the eastern foothills of Asturias, the border with Cantabria just south of the coast. Several fincas in aldeas, sized up for purchase.
- [The Hedge Between Us](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-hedge-between-us/): I’ve been thinking about the notion of hedging. More than in the financial sense, although that’s important.
- [How Taste Gets Installed](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/how-taste-gets-installed/): There is a particular kind of freedom that is not in the least bit glamorous. Yet might be, from some's perspective, the pinnacle of life's achievement.
- [Who Wrote This?](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/im-a-terrible-musician/): Yes, I wrote this. But the fact that I now feel compelled to say so is a problem.
- [Castros and Bistros](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/castros-and-bistros/): An ongoing inquiry into inheritance and partial evidence.
- [What Are You Doing Here?](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/what-are-you-doing-here/): Sometime in the mid 2010s, while I was working at Livingston International, I was invited to speak at an off-site meeting in Chicago.
- [The Baker Who Started Again](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-baker-who-started-again/): An ongoing inquiry into inheritance and partial evidence.
- [A Font I Didn't Choose](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/a-font-i-didnt-choose/): There are mornings when it feels like my sense of self is already written and set in a font I didn't choose. Usually Mondays. I wake into it like weather.
- [The Phenomenon of Replay](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/art-as-environment-the-phenomenon-of-replay/): There are albums people carry through entire lifetimes. Music replayed hundreds, sometimes thousands of times without exhaustion.
- [The Creative Synthesist](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-creative-synthesist/): There is no single word for what a creative synthesist does.
- [What I Half-Know](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/provenance-humana/): An ongoing inquiry into inheritance, and partial evidence.
- [Fiction as a Mirror](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/fiction-as-a-mirror/): There is something quietly exciting and revolutionary in the way fictional characters slip into the crevices of our identities, like a form of conscious rehearsal in real-time.
- [How Things Hold Up](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/how-things-hold-up/): Three months into 2026, our personal, professional, and artistic lives have already been reshaped by forces both visible and unseen.
- [A Rational Artist](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/a-rational-artist-in-neo-feudal-conditions/): I was trained first on the classical guitar. I began at seven years old—a Christmas gift that quickly became something more serious than anyone intended.
- [Art Through Restraint and Care](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/art-through-restraint-and-care/): Over the last few months, my compositional practice has become more musically spacious—more deliberate in its subtraction.
- [The Remaining Distance](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-remaining-distance/): It began with what felt like a naïve question: how does an artificial intelligence process a language like Chinese, whose written form is dense with ambiguity, polysemy, historical sediment, and interpretive openness?
- [Life After Triage](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/life-after-triage/): I almost always begin my creative thinking in the present moment, out of necessity. It is the only place from which I can reliably feel.
- [You Are Being Thought](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/you-are-being-thought/): For many years, there were mornings when I would sit down intending to think.
- [The Art of Bearing Witness](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-art-of-bearing-witness/): On some mornings, I sit with a cup of coffee on my terrace and watch the city come awake.
- [Elegance and Exposure](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/elegance-and-exposure/): My conscious mind rarely announces its inner workings.
- [What We Call Intuition](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/what-we-call-intuition/): When I sit with my guitar, I often begin to play with no real plan, no score, searching for inspiration and aesthetic expression.
- [A Tender Causality](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/a-tender-causality/): A few months ago, I began a long experiment in listening.
- [The Honest Impostor](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-honest-impostor/): I remember the year I stopped being a musician for the first time—or rather, the year I stepped sideways into something that looked nothing like music, though it quietly rested on the same principles.
- [The Present Looks Both Ways](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-present-looks-both-ways/): I’ve spent much of my life creating music.
- [I Am Because You Are](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/i-am-because-you-are/): It usually happens at night, when the noise of being useful has settled. I think best after dark—always have.
- [A Fragile Wager](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/a-fragile-wager-trust-and-the-human-condition/): We do not choose our fragility. It is there before we are aware of it—in our bruises, in our heartache, in the people and pacts that threw us under the bus.
- [Credentials, and their Origins](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/credentials-and-their-origins/): A man stands before the court in Valladolid, Spain, in the late sixteenth century. His boots are worn, his cloak patched. He carries more dignity than coin.
- [A Clear View](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/a-clear-view/): When groups of people band together, they are often held together by a pact.
- [Part 3: Heritage or Hologram](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/part-3-heritage-or-hologram/): In the early 1990s, while working as a young multimedia designer, I took part in a series of hologram photography projects for an art exhibition in Toronto—laser-light images suspended in glass, each holding a frozen volume of space.
- [Part 2: Dignity of an Analogue](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/part-2-dignity-of-an-analogue/): There was a time when remembering meant touching something. Before our age of feeds and tiny high-resolution screens.
- [Part 1: Silence as Structure](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/silence-as-structure/): In the twenty-first century, forgetting has become almost taboo. We are persuaded to save everything, remember everything, archive everything.
- [We Carry What We Choose](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/we-carry-what-we-choose/): Each of us is undeniably individual, yet we all long for connection.
- [Part V: Landscape of Listening](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/part-v-the-landscape-of-listening/): Music is the art of shaping what cannot be held. It draws no lines, casts no shadows, leaves no trace once listened. And yet within us, it maps terrain.
- [Part IV: How Music Remembers](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/260-2/): We are not only what we remember. We are when we remember.
- [Part III: Architecture of Song](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/part-iii-the-mnemonic-architecture-of-song/): “What the mind forgets, the music remembers.” - Elias Vireaux.
- [Part II: Harmonics of the Mind](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/harmonics-of-the-mind-music-and-the-neural-geometry-of-time/): There’s a particular satisfaction that comes from hearing a melody.
- [Part I: The Pulse Beneath Memory](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-pulse-beneath-memory-music-and-the-neural-geometry-of-time/): “Time is the substance I am made of.
- [Music's Neural Geometry](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/music-and-the-neural-geometry-of-time/): What if music isn’t just something we hear, but something we are—a structural rhythm that helps shape memory, identity, and the very sense of self across time?
- [Part III: The Evolution of Self](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/part-iii-reinvention-neuroplasticity-and-the-evolution-of-self/): The work of healing is rarely loud. It doesn’t announce itself with clarity or closure.
- [Part II: Death of the Dream](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/part-ii-fracture-dissonance-and-the-death-of-the-dream/): There’s a moment I remember with haunting clarity. I was standing in the wings after a show—sweaty, elated, the audience still roaring—and I felt… nothing.
- [Part I: Architecture of Identity](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/part-i-the-dream-and-the-architecture-of-identity/): Somewhere in the back of my mind, there has always been a belief.
- [The Shape of Our Desires](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-shape-of-our-desires/): Somewhere between intention and arrival, something shifts.
- [Creative Generalism and AI](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/creative-generalism-in-the-age-of-ai/): We are living through a fundamental shift in how creative work happens.
- [AI and the Creative Mind](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/ai-game-theory-and-the-creative-mind/): Over the past two years, I’ve worked daily with AI tools—Perplexity for research, Firefly for design, Copilot for coding and Gemini for exploration.
- [The Synthetic Mind](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-synthetic-mind-how-generative-ai-and-creativity-intersect/): What is self-expression?
- [Crafting a Common Tongue](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/crafting-a-common-tongue-for-the-digital-renaissance/): When we speak, what are we truly conveying, and how does our intended meaning shift through the lens of another’s interpretation?
- [AGI and Emergent Properties](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/agi-and-emergent-properties-how-complexity-shapes-intelligence-and-creativity/): Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is being talked about as the next transformative leap in technology by the likes of experts at OpenAI, Anthropic, and institutions such as MIT, Stanford, and Oxford.
- [Intuition in the Machine?](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/intuition-in-the-machine/): Intuition has long been revered as a profoundly human faculty, a silent navigator guiding us through creativity and decision-making.
- [Seeing Music, Hearing Colour](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/seeing-music-hearing-colour-accessing-synaesthesia/): Have you ever heard a piece of music and imagined its rhythms and melody as a pattern of swirling colours, each note igniting a different hue in your mind?
- [The Alchemy of Emotions](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-alchemy-of-emotions/): Emotional responses are a fundamental aspect of the human condition, shaping our perceptions, beliefs, and behaviours.
- [Shaping Creativity with Science](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/shaping-creativity-with-cognitive-science/): As a lifelong musician, multimedia producer, and design director, my career spans a spectrum of creative disciplines.
- [AI and the Invisible Library](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/ai-and-the-invisible-library/): In a recent article published in Nature, the acclaimed historian and author Jo Marchant explores what might well be one of the most extraordinary technological breakthroughs of our generation.
- [Bridges of Continuity](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/bridges-of-continuity/): As I reflect on the last day of 2024, I am grateful of the gravity and significance of this year’s events.
- [Borrow and Transform.](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/borrow-and-transform/): Creativity is a paradox. It thrives on influence yet demands originality.
- [Reimagining Aesthetics](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/reimagining-aesthetics/): The first time I stood in front of a Picasso—one of his cubist-era portraits of a woman whose face seemed to defy all logic—I was barely 13.
- [Curating Life’s Narratives](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/curating-lifes-narratives/): Life is a shifting mosaic of memories, challenges, and hopeful triumphs.
- [In the Quiet of Disapproval](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/courage-in-the-quiet-of-disapproval/): In moments of introspection, especially when faced with a personal crossroads, I often find myself grappling with a deceptively simple question: What will others think of me?
- [Design’s Invisible Architecture](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/designs-invisible-architecture/): Design is a term both vast and vital, touching everything from the strokes of an illustration to the structure of a symphony, the interface of a digital app to the complex systems that shape our world.
- [The Art as the Journey](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-art-as-the-journey/): Artistry transcends the act of creation; it is about how we navigate life’s challenges, confront our vulnerabilities, and return with insights that shape both our work and who we become.
- [Creativity. Purpose. Drive.](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/creativity-purpose-drive/): In the world of artistic entrepreneurship, three interconnected elements—creativity, purpose, and drive—form a guiding constellation that leads the creator through the uncharted territory of innovation and personal growth.
- [Your Masterpiece Never Seen](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/your-greatest-masterpiece-might-never-be-seen/): In a world where visibility often defines value, it’s easy to conflate creative success with recognition.
- [From Strings to Screens to Stories](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/from-strings-to-screens-my-journey-through-creativity/): Looking back on over three decades of work as a creative professional, I'm compelled to share the story that brought me here, from music to multimedia to writing, has shaped my career and understanding of identity, and the power of the creative process.
- [Embracing the Pivot](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/embracing-the-pivot/): How do we know when it’s time to change direction?
- [The Universe is a Mirror](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/the-universe-is-a-mirror/): There are moments in life that seem to transcend explanation — when the threads of chance weave themselves into a pattern too intricate and meaningful to ignore.
- [Rise of the Creative Generalist](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/rise-of-the-creative-generalist/): Creativity is the language of the soul, a means by which we translate our most profound experiences and feelings into communicative forms that resonate with like minds.
- [Glueleg’s Horror Vacui](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/finding-your-voice-through-digital-mediums-the-recording-of-gluelegs-horror-vacui/): In today’s creative landscape, the ability to harness digital tools effectively can make the difference between an idea that lingers in the mind and a project that comes to life with authenticity.
- [Art vs. Entertainment](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/art-vs-entertainment-in-an-age-of-limitless-creation/): We live in an age of limitless creation, where the boundary between art and entertainment shifts fluidly, often blurring until intent becomes intertwined.
- [On the Sovereign Life](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/on-the-sovereign-life/): There’s a stage in life when one's centre of gravity shifts. You stop chasing outcomes, and tolerating noise. You stop mistaking intensity for depth.

## Pages

- [Concerto for Lost Frequencies](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/concerto-for-lost-frequencies/): Concerto for Lost Frequencies is presented as a fictional live recording—captured at the Tokyo International Forum as it appears in That Which Remembers Us.
- [Barometric Soul](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/barometric-soul/): Carlos Alberto Alonso’s Barometric Soul is a lyrical collection, tracing the unseen atmospheres of inner life—where memory, perception, and creative practice converge.
- [That Which Remembers Us](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/that-which-remembers-us/): What if memory were no longer private, but programmable?
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- [About](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/about/): My work has taken shape over time.
- [Music](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/music/): The complete recorded works of Carlos Alberto Alonso, ALONSO, and Glueleg: albums shaped by the cultures that formed them.
- [Books](https://carlosalbertoalonso.com/books/): A growing body of long-form work spanning speculative fiction, philosophy, and human behaviour.
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