Thomas Brett
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On Performance In Electronic Music Production
When you imagine a musician or band really killing it onstage, you hold in mind the traditional notion of musical performance as musicians’ real-time striving to accomplish a goal in the moment. This could be improvising a solo, playing a composed piece from memory, or rendering a classic song one more time. Part of why… Continue reading
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Impossible Mix
The subway dancer guys are performing with a bass speaker playing big beats but I’m already listening to my own sound on headphones so I fiddle with the volume just so their beat mixes with my bass line and now I don’t ignore them because our different musics are getting along. Continue reading
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Musical Distortions
distort – to pull or twist out of shape, change the form of; from the Latin distorquere (‘apart’ + ‘to twist) Among the many interesting and unanticipated discoveries made while producing electronic music is hitting upon distortions that cause sounds to behave in unusual ways. The most common type of distortion is overdriving or saturating… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Calvin Tomkins’ “Vija Celmins’s Surface Matters” (2019)
“You do it again and again, and you sense that the thing is beginning to have a form that looks strong. And all the time you’re thinking, and making decisions. The making, the devotion to making, is what gives it an emotional quality.” – Vija Clemins • “What makes her images so alive is the… Continue reading
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Five Benefits Of Writing Regularly
You no longer feel you have nothing to say, because evidence points to your saying things all the time. You become less attached to whether particular ideas are “good” and more into the process that generates ideas in general. You see ideas as small and specific things rather than large and vague things, and more… Continue reading
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