Failure

“Mistakes are the portals to discovery.” “One fails towards success”. “No pain. No gain.” There are hundreds of ways of saying it: without failure there is no success. Hear what our Confluence storytellers have to say about their own experiences with failure.

Discovery takes time

Ariane Koek, art-science pioneer

Failure is critical

Ariane Koek, art-science pioneer

Destructive testing and art

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Instruments are magical

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Making things is breaking things

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Our attachment to the cymbals

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Brainstorming and glass printing

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Printing the glass cymbals

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project