Thomas Brett
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Fragments: Musical Advice
Musical virtuosity and musicianship are not the same. The first is obvious and focuses on Me, while the second is subtle and dissolves into Us. The first iteration of a series of pieces is often the most interesting, because you don’t yet know what you’re doing. Preserve that naïveté. You don’t have to know all Continue reading
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Database: Oklou On Loops
“…take as the basis of the tracks this idea of a loop that I could be listening to forever. Just because I think it sounds close to perfection. Shorter patterns and this idea of a cycle repeating itself forever and ever, and how I can build a pop song on top of that.” Oklou database Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Matthew B. Crawford’s “Shop Class As Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work” (2009)
“The craftsman’s habitual deference is not toward the New, but toward the objective standards of his craft. However narrow in its application, this is a rare appearance in contemporary life—a disinterested, articulable, and publicly affirmable idea of the good. Such a strong ontology is somewhat at odds with the cutting-edge institutions of the new capitalism, Continue reading
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Music’s Negative Space
M.C. Escher, Sky and Water I (1938) Pause the music that soundtracks you.Notice silence, music’s other half. Listen to its space, your thoughts, the wind.Tune in to a soundscape without spacing out. To hear what music is saying, experience what it replaces. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Thomas de Zengotita’s “Mediated” (2006)
“Say your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere—the middle of Saskatchewan, say. You have no radio, no cell phone, nothing to read, no gear to fiddle with. You just have to wait. Pretty soon you notice how everything around you just happens to be there. And it just happens to be there in Continue reading
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