Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: Chad Robertson On Documenting Trial And Error
“I made most discoveries by exhaustive trial and error, over time gathering each lesson into a simple approach based on what I had learned. The approach was not rigidly scientific, but results were documented by concise shorthand notes and photos of the bread on days when something notable was achieved in crust or crumb.” – Continue reading
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Art About Music: “Chinese Musicians” (Anonymous, Chinese, 19th c.)
This painting is of two drummers, but it’s the stark, blank space framing them that catches our attention the most. The space has no borders and it’s almost without depth as well, save for the faint shadows next to female drummer who stands. She sways with a small tom tom strapped over her left forearm, Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Robert Irwin On Beauty, Perception, And Framing
“Beauty is all around you. You open your eyes in the morning, the world is totally formed. You haven’t done anything other than be. It’s all around you. The whole idea is being able to recognize it, and pay attention to it, articulate it.” I’m trying to make the most beautiful thing and knock your Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Nadia Struiwigh’s “-5” (2021)
(The 2021 Playlist.) Continue reading
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Process, Not Outcome
“Musical processes can give one a direct contact with the impersonal and also a kind of complete control, and one doesn’t always think of the impersonal and complete control as going together. By ‘a kind’ of complete control I mean that by running this material through the process I completely control all that results, but Continue reading
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