Thomas Brett
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On Musical Transitions
I’ve been thinking about transitions—that is, how the music gets from one place to another. One of the pros of DAW music software that is simultaneously a con is that in your arrangement page view you can juxtapose a bunch of discrete sections of music and have them seamlessly play in sequence as if that… Continue reading
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Arrows Of Attention: A Pattern Language For Electronic Music Production
Arpeggiate Automate Breakdown Browse Compress Copy And Paste Delay and Echo EQ Extend Fade In / Fade Out Filter Sweep Fractalize Harmonize Humanize Interrupt Juxtapose Layer Loop Mix Mute Pan Pedal Note Quantize Randomize Recombine Reduce Remix Repeat Resample Re-Tune Reverb Reverse Route Stretch Subdivide Syncopate Texturize Transform Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: James Williams’ “Stand Out Of Our Light” (2018)
“What do you pay when you pay attention? You pay with all the things you could have attended to, but didn’t, all the goals you didn’t pursue, all the actions you didn’t take, and all the possible yous you could have been, had you attended to those other things. Attention is paid in possible… Continue reading
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Breaking Free From A Modus Operandi Towards Enchantment
This happens to me all the time: I’m building up the music, fixing and adjusting things, calibrating and measuring, evening out and making everything balanced then I realize, crap, I don’t like it. The problem is that I’ve lost touch—temporarily, I hope—of what I would like to listen to. My busyness has assumed an outsized life… Continue reading
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Friday Freestyle
• I’ve been enjoying Nadia Eghbal’s newsletter, and also Kyle Chayka’s newsletter. (Also: Chayka’s forthcoming book on minimalism.) • Thinking about music making as some kind of litmus, but not a test. • Tee shirt sighting: “Sorry for what I said at mile 20.” • A second tee shirt sighting (shirt worn by a very… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Erik Kessel’s “Failed It!” (2016)
“Play with something ordinary and make it extraordinary. Don’t worry what you might be destroying; think about what you’re creating.” Erik Kessels, Failed It! (2016), p. 120 Continue reading
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