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thinking through music

May 2010

May 23, 2010

Reading About Silence

I’ve been enjoying George Prochnik’s recent book, “In Pursuit Of Silence.” He articulates sentiments of many who live in densely noisy urban places: What is the effect of noise on our body-minds? How does silence heal? And how can we pursue the idea of silence in the midst of noise? As a frequent headphone wearer… Continue reading

Noise & Silence
May 23, 2010

Creative Strategies in Electronic Music

If you subscribe, like I do, to Future Music magazine, each month you get a nifty DVD with free sounds and musician interviews. This month’s disc featured a video tutorial with Kieran Hebdan – aka Four Tet. It was pretty brilliant (as the English might say). Hebdan brings the viewer through the composing process he… Continue reading

Creativity, Electronic music

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

May 2010

Reading About Silence

Creative Strategies in Electronic Music