Thomas Brett
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Keywords: Soundset
Your soundset is a bespoke palette of sounds, toolkit of filigreed production possibilities, collection of go-to enchanting instruments and timbres, and repertoire of effects and signal processing ways, balanced just so. Having a soundset solves the problems of what template to use and how to begin, freeing your attention from which sounds to what shall Continue reading
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Running As Flow Practice
“The run is white noise, a way to simply experience time as a body, a piston, that exists away from the mind and only in the body as a live reactive presence.” Matthew Futterman, Running to the Edge (2019) At home I move fast and bump into things. Shins knock the couch, flying elbows glance Continue reading
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Database: Jacob Collier On Even Though There’s Just Two Speakers There’s Always space
“[Mixing] is a constant prioritization about what should be in the background, what should be in the foreground, how do you carve a satisfying set of journeys where everything goes on a little path and paths connect. I think it’s just a matter of listening very carefully to what’s there and not being afraid to Continue reading
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Keywords: Not Knowing What You’re Listening For Until You Hear It
(Painting: Fernand Khnopff, “Listening to Schumann” [1883]) Composers who write for acoustic musicians have a good idea of the soundworld they’re scoring for: an orchestra, a wind quartet, a choir, a percussion ensemble. But this isn’t the case with music producers as they create both a palette of sounds and the virtual acoustic/synthetic spaces these Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Kyle Chayka’s “The Longing for Less: What’s Missing from Minimalism” (2020)
[On the art of Agnes Martin] “They’re consistently sized, most of them six-foot squares of canvas, and as simple and gentle as any artwork ever made, yet with an inner strength. Each canvas is covered with repeating patterns in soft, pale colors; some are grids drawn with a ruler in pencil, others vertical or horizontal Continue reading
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