Thomas Brett
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Good Notes Are Everywhere At Hand
“Any theory’s relevance depended on its possible bearing for my practice.” – David Sudnow, Ways Of The Hand (2001), p. 19. “Good notes were everywhere at hand, right beneath the fingers” wrote David Sudnow in his 2001 book, Ways Of The Hand. Originally published in 1979 as a deep (and fairly reader-unfriendly) phenomenological dive into the… Continue reading
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Reading Analogically: Two Ideas From Christopher Alexander’s “A Pattern Language” (1977)
“Don’t attend to larger issues in the [music] unless you can do something about them, concretely, in your own project.” “Compress as many patterns as you can into the smallest possible [musical] space.” – Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language (1977) Continue reading
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Less And More Music Production Heuristics
Less predictable. More unusual. Less smooth. More textured. Less even. More jagged. Less new. More weathered.* Less obvious. More nuanced. Less automated. More considered. Less quantized. More error. Less looped. More change over time. Less rushed. More taking its time. Less prefab. More customized. Less trying to impress. More trying to explore. Less boring. More… Continue reading
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Notes On Less Is More
“…Who strive—you don’t know how the others strive To paint a little thing like that you smeared Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,— Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says, (I know his name, no matter) – so much less! Well, less is more, Lucrezia. I am judged…” – Robert Browning, “Andrea del… Continue reading
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On Going All In: Ten Reasons To Blog
It’s out of date now—most people prefer reading weekly or monthly newsletters, or trance out scrolling through a billion Instagram photos of others performing their lives and framing the world filtered just so—but blogging old-fashioned text still works, still has a place, especially for longer form content. I like blogs. One of my favorites is… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Trevor Horn In “Pop Music-Creativity And Technology” (2003)
“What’s really interesting these days for me is people’s idea of sound. We’ve got a whole new generation of musicians—people who, for instance, program a beat box without any experience of a real drummer. When we first got beat boxes, we tried to program them to do what a drummer would do. Nowadays people haven’t… Continue reading
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