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  • November 12, 2026

    Database: Moritz von Oswald on Attention, Changing Sounds, Musical Weaves, Reduced Material, and Dub’s Sides

    “For me, sometimes, it feels better to have only one note whose colors change. I pay attention to: How do we change the sound of this? Not through any weird effects. That would be gluing things together.” “If you had one rope, and you had a really nice knot with this one note—one rope—it can… Continue reading

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  • November 11, 2026

    Curating the Week: Algorithms and Cultural Flattening, Skill and Decision-Making in Tennis, Writing in the Age of AI

    • An essay on algorithms and cultural flattening. “We have never had more individual data and naive intuition says all that granular personal data should fragment us, splinter the world into a billion niches. And yet the opposite is happening. The more the machines learn about us as individuals, the more alike our worlds look.”… Continue reading

    Curating The Week
    AI, artificial-intelligence, writing
  • November 10, 2026

    Resonant Thoughts: Kevin Roose’s “The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence” (2026)

    “nobody—not even the people who train AI models for a living—knows exactly how large language models work” (226). “There was no end. Nobody would ever agree on what AGI was, or when we’d reached it. There were too many conflicting ideas and moving goalposts, and no universally accepted definition of the thing they were all… Continue reading

    AI
    agi, AI, artificial-intelligence
  • November 9, 2026

    Lumen Sensibus

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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.

Recent Posts

  • Database: Moritz von Oswald on Attention, Changing Sounds, Musical Weaves, Reduced Material, and Dub’s Sides
  • Curating the Week: Algorithms and Cultural Flattening, Skill and Decision-Making in Tennis, Writing in the Age of AI
  • Resonant Thoughts: Kevin Roose’s “The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence” (2026)
  • Lumen Sensibus
  • Arrows of Attention: 10 Music-Making Heuristics

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