Thomas Brett
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Notes On Channel Surfing
When music is selling signifying associating manipulating entertaining showing off distracting sentimentalizing playing the hitsbeing difficult oversimplifying soundtracking something else change the station. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Tim Ingold’s “Correspondences” (2021)
“Words, spoken or handwritten, echo the pulse of things. They can caress, startle, enchant, repel…” “We might cease our endless writing about performance, and become performers ourselves.” “…we should work our words as craftsmen work their materials, in ways that testify, in their inscriptive traces, to the labour of their production, and that offer these… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Seefeel’s “Meol 2” (2021)
(The 2021 Playlist.) Continue reading
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Notes On In-Betweenness
While there is something to those old sayings trust the process and it’s the journey, not the destination, in music production the process/journey often has the distinctive quality of feeling like an in-between state. Recently, while working on a new project, it occurred to me to think more about in-betweenness. I had just begun something… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Allison Funk’s “On Pruning” (1999)
“Cut it way back. Do not be afraid to pinch the first, the only blossom. The berry cannot thrive in freedom. Have no mercy, gardener…” Allison Funk, “On Pruning” Continue reading
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