Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: Milan Kundera On Composing, Writing, And Automatism
“Today one can compose music with a computer, but the computer always existed in composers’ heads—if they had to, composers could write sonatas without a single original idea, just by ‘cybernetically’ expanding on the rules of composition. Janáček’s purpose was to destroy this computer … My purpose is like Janáček’s: to rid the novel of… Continue reading
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Five Levels Of Pulsation
(Hint: On this blog’s webpage, listen to all five videos simultaneously.) Continue reading
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Notes On Making Music And Levels Of Experience
Usually I stay preoccupied with the nuts and bolts of putting music together–getting a performance down, arranging parts, designing sounds, and editing. But recently it occurred to me (while away from the screen) that making music is always about at least two levels of experience. The first level is what I just referred to as… Continue reading
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Notes On The Steady And Slow Concept
A few weeks ago I sang the praises of intensity recruitment and its power to make things happen in the moment. But since intensity isn’t sustainable, we do well to spend most of our time working steady and slow. If intensity recruitment is about marshaling a high level of engagement, steady and slow is creativity… Continue reading
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