Thomas Brett
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The Intensity Recruitment Concept
In athletics there’s a concept called motor unit recruitment, which refers to how the body activates additional motor units (i.e. one motor neuron and the associated muscle fibers it stimulates) to accomplish an increase in muscle strength. An example of motor unit recruitment is how light exercise recruits the body’s slow-twitch motor units, while high… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Hannah Peel’s “Carbon Cycle” (2021)
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Notes On Shifting Attentions: From Practicing To Performing
“A categorization is a natural way of identifying a kind of object or experience by highlighting certain properties, downplaying others, and hiding still others…To highlight certain properties is necessarily to downplay or hide others, which is what happens whenever we categorize something. Focusing on one set of properties shifts our attention away from others. When… Continue reading
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Notes On Musical Tensions and Canon Counterpoints
Notation for Le Ray Au Soleyl by Johannes Ciconia (c. 1390s) What is it that keeps your attention when you encounter a music? Is it its instrumentation and timbre world? Its performers (human or machine)? Its melodies? Its chords and harmonies? Its feel and vibe? Its sheer volume? (That bass!) Its rhythms that make you… Continue reading
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