Thomas Brett
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Musical Depth
depth the distance from the surface to the bottom of something; the apparent existence of three dimensions in a two-dimensional representation; complexity or profundity of thought As I wrote here a few years ago, music is a depth experience par excellence, that seems to have built into its design an endless capacity to conjure virtual… Continue reading
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Step Sequenced
The repeating sequence has a fixed number of steps that return again and again a sixteen beat cycle, one measure of time downbeats—1, 5, 9, 13—on the kick backbeats—3, 7, 11, 15—on the snare offbeats—2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16—on the hats the groove locked tempo steady rhythms measured a repeating sequence… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Jim Copperthwaite’s “The Dancers”
(This would be the moving theme song for an enchanting movie in which everything is not what it seems…) Continue reading
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Flip
Whether you’re a performer or a listener, when you’re involved in music you’re flipping your attention all the time, orienting it from one place to another, focusing on something near or far, just past or maybe about to happen, from the sounds to your emotions and then back to the sounds, in a repeating feedback… Continue reading
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Reluctant Synthesist
Music’s a synthesist connector of modules and patch cords running feelings through waveforms through filters echo-reverbs delays a musical system, a mix, an oscillating life. Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Dominique Lawalree’s “Listen to the Quiet Voice” (c. 1978-1982)
(Musical rigor wrapped in simplicity.) Continue reading
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