Thomas Brett
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Change One Thing
Paul Klee, Ancient Sound (1925) “The key about a process is that it has time in it.” – Nassim Taleb, Fooled By Randomness When I’m writing new music I sometimes preserve one thing from a previous project, but change it slightly. Let’s say I’ve just finished a work for solo keyboard. Usually what happens is Continue reading
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Database: Dave Stewart On Stereo Picture, Frequency Differences, And Demos
“A lot of [“Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This”] was trying to create as much space as possible so that Annie’s voice sounded crystal clear, pure, and not drowned out. But making sure the backing track still sounded incredibly powerful. A lot of that has to do with literally not having anything in the stereo Continue reading
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When Less Leads To More
My hope for every music production session is for something unexpected to catch my attention and open a new perceptual world. But such worlds almost never open right off the bat. Like anything aesthetically significant, they tend to require time and attention–you have to work into them. How does one do that? It helps to Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Molly Bang’s “Picture This” (1991/2016)
“Pictures are two-dimensional, whereas we live in a three-dimensional space, with many more dimensions added by our passions and intelligence. When we translate or reform our multifaceted experience into this flat, rectangular format, we play with space” (100). “Space implies time” (108). “…cut paper makes us concentrate on structure, emotional clarity, gesture, and overall cohesion Continue reading
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