Thomas Brett
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Walking Music
Music is a scent you catch walking down the street corn over coals: a BBQ a cottage a dock on a lake jumping into dark water long past summer memories triggered from smoke in the air. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Roy Christopher’s “Dead Precedents” (2019)
“Underneath that odd veneer of mainstream schizophrenia, subgenres were splitting and dividing like brain-tumor cells. Enabled by recording and sampling technologies that eroded any semblance of cultural cohesion, forecasts of the future and pieces of the past were mixing into an unrecognizable new era.” – Roy Christopher, Dead Precedents, p. 18 (2019) Continue reading
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Notes On Programming Rhythms
As I teach myself how to program rhythms that I enjoy listening to, I’ve learned some lessons that might interest the musicians among my readers. Lesson One: the most efficient way to program a rhythm is to play it. You can play it all at once, as I do, one part at a time,… Continue reading
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Notes On Making Beats II
In general, I don’t like beats that are too regular, yet I also don’t like beats that are merely functional. I like beats that are different—beats that make me think about their patterns of beatings. So when I compose (electronic) beats, I avoid typical beat-making moves: having the beats mark the backbeats (e.g. in 4/4… Continue reading
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Resonant Thought: Henri Lefebvre’s “Everyday Life in the Modern World” (1971)
“Does music express the secret nature of everyday life, or compensate, on the contrary, for its triviality and superficiality?…Music is nothing else but number and proportion (intervals, rhythm, timbres) and it is at the same time nothing else but lyricism, profusion and dream. It is all vitality, exuberance and sensuality and all analysis, precision and… Continue reading
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