Thomas Brett
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On Music Production’s Repeated Listenings
“My work is a progressive revelation of something which exists independently of me. Attention is rewarded by a knowledge of reality.” – Iris Murdoch, in Matthew B. Crawford, The World Beyond Your Head, p. 127 “I can’t begin to describe how that simple act of repetition back then made me so ecstatically happy—but it did.… Continue reading
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Searches That Brought You Here: Nils Frahm, David Hockney, and J. Dilla
• Nils Frahm Delay. This search brought you to my post about the music of Nils Frahm. I wrote: “The album alternates between intimate solo piano work that is perhaps Frahm’s signature quietudes sound, and more expansive (and long) pieces built upon rolling electronic keyboard arpeggios swirling in delay-effected, rhythm deluges.” • Hockney perspective. This… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting” (2019)
“I gave up facts entirely in order to have an empty mind for inspiration to come into…You have to practice quiet, empty mind. I gave up the intellect entirely. I had a hard time giving up evolution and the atomic theory but I managed it…And I never have any ideas myself. I’m very careful not… Continue reading
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EQ Reveries
I was listening to a part of a piece solo while EQing it. I had the sound’s waveform displayed in the EQ so I could see where its primary frequencies were happening and not happening, and my goal was to accentuate these frequencies and reduce (shelve) the less important ones at the margins. The part… Continue reading
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Good Bit Listening
One shouldn’t listen this way but I race through music letting the first track play all the way through then skipping along the others FF>> FF>>FF>> impatient doubtful a skeptic looking for the good bits hoping for the good bits the parts that slow me down stop me in my tracks music >> pauses >>… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Leonard Koren’s “What Artists Do” (2018)
“If you really want to separate your work from everyone else’s, every time you come to a Y in the road, don’t think about which way to go; automatically take the toughest route. Everybody else is taking the easiest one.” – Richard Serra in Leonard Koren’s What Artists Do (2018) Continue reading
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