Thomas Brett
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Notes On Production Clichés
“Beware of clichés…There are clichés of response as well as expression.There are clichés of observation and of thought–even of conception.”–Geoff Dyer I struck out a bit yesterday when I tried making something. I liked the sound, but the melody was hackneyed. It was so bad, so uninteresting, that I recorded it as a reminder that this… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Nassim Taleb On Tinkering
“It is in complex systems, ones in which we have little visibility of the chains of cause-consequences, that tinkering, bricolage, or similar variations of trial and error have been shown to vastly outperform the teleological —it is nature’s modus operandi. (…) Take the most opaque of all, cooking, which relies entirely on the heuristics of… Continue reading
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Getting Granular: Notes On Obsessive Listening
I have a habit of obsessively listening to certain pieces of music, while ignoring vast swathes of new releases—intending to get to them sometime, but I won’t. What’s up with that? An answer is that such obsessive listening is an antidote to an excess of options as to what to listen to. Now that music… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ikonika On Arrangements
“I’m trying to exhaust what I’ve got. I’m trying to keep things simple, and build layers, basically. And so when I make a tune, I will concentrate on 8 bars at a time. But that first 8 bar loop has to bang for me, and I have to be able to listen to that loop… Continue reading
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