Thomas Brett
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Musical Remodeling as Defamiliarizing
Recently I’ve been remodeling music I haven’t yet released. I like the original tracks as they are, but remodeling is an opportunity to build a surprise, a chance to hear what happens when one’s prior work is bracketed and used as material for new music. The most exciting part of remodeling is defamiliarizing a track… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past” (2020)
“Memory and forgetting: these are the faculties of mind by which we are aware of time, and time is a mystery. In addition, a long tradition holds that the imagination is best conceived as operating with a mixture of memory and forgetting. Creation—things coming into being that never were before—that too is a mystery. Writers… Continue reading
