brettworks

Attend to the random, the serendipitous, and the happy accidents; use the sounds at hand; commit to what’s working right now; mix on the fly; always improvise; bloom other parts from the chords; drum non-obvious rhythms; embrace the synthetic but evoke the acoustic (or vice versa); change one line and keep another the same; contrast perspectives and textures (i.e. treble v bass, dry v wet, mono v stereo, foreground v background, clean v gnarly, freeform v measured, intense v calm); resample what’s already there; develop the form by elegant (simple) methods; try multiple versions of the same idea; err on the side of less, not more; notice how and what the sounds makes you feel; suspend self-judgment; play, program, record, and save the work so you can move on.