Thomas Brett
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An Article On Creativity In Electronic Music Production
My article “Popular Music Production in Laptop Studios: Creative Workflows as Problem-Solving Within Ableton Live” is available in Perspectives on Music Production: Producing Music (Routledge 2019). The article takes a problem-solving approach to creativity by exploring electronic music production techniques within Ableton Live, one of the most influential and widely used DAW (digital audio workstation)… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Deaf Center’s “Undone” (2019)
Follow Brett’s Sound Picks 2019 here. (Listen to Brett’s Sound Picks 2018 here.) Continue reading
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On Clearly Articulating
articulate—express an idea or feeling fluently or coherently (from Latin articulare ‘divide into joints’) Well-articulated music has amazing communicative power, and when I listen to other musicians play the first thing I notice is how it articulates (or not). For drummers and percussionists, it’s impossible to hide behind sloppy articulation because the sounds we make… Continue reading
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Tweaking A Beat
The beat could be anything, or something quite simple. The beat was for nothing, or for being interesting in itself, for creating a mood. I choose the kit at random and found its kick and snare: boom – – – kah – – boom – – boom – kah – – – A generic a place… Continue reading
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On The Limits Of Musical Timbre
When you’re working on a collection of music, it helps to have them unified in some way. The surest way to do this is for each piece to have the same instrumentation. I’ve done this with my music in that each of my recordings is scored for a single set of sounds. For example, Piano… Continue reading
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City Music
Not sure how music lives in the country but in the city it lives in headphones powering people up boom—gah-boom—gah boom—gah-boom—gah making force fields demarcating space keeping the party to yourself. Continue reading
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