Thomas Brett
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Database: Michel Bras On Aesthetics From Nature And The Expressiveness Of Limited Means
“There is an expression I love from Jean-Paul Sartre: ‘Nature talks, experience translates it.’ All the aesthetics of my plates, I picked up from nature. There is an aestheticization of cooking for me that came from my relationship with nature. And there is another expression I adore from [artist Pierre] Soulages which says: ‘Plus les… Continue reading
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Database: Bjarki On Field Recordings And Free Energy
“Making field recordings is just trying to capture a certain mood. A lot of the sound that you hear–drums, percussion–I would like to capture certain vibe from nature by just going out with a drumstick and trying to find a kick drum in the stones, or trying to find the kick drum in the sand… Continue reading
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Keywords: Prompts
Why am I working on this? Sometimes your music making answers this question, but often it doesn’t. So it can be helpful to think about possibilities and paths of action before you start by devising prompts to orient yourself in directions you could go. A prompt is a phrase to guide, inspire, and energize your… Continue reading
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The Alchemy Of Imperfection
(Photo: Drazen Nesic) Many music production tools steer us towards perfection. With a click we load a sample with immaculate verisimilitude to a real instrument, auto tune errant vocal pitches by cents or semitones, quantize a shaky drum hit to the nearest sixteenth note or downbeat safe haven, loop a phrase to exactly four measures,… Continue reading
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Database: Trent Reznor On Liking The Way The Other One Sounded
“We’ve been having that happen a little bit with orchestral stuff, too, a couple scores we recently did. The intention was just dropping some Spitfire strings to mock-up something and then when it’s time to do it for real, after you’ve spent a fuck-load of money and add 1,000 people in and an orchestrator and… Continue reading
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Musical Prompts: Four Rooms
In a large gallery with white walls and hardwood floors, heard from the end of the room. A pad sound plays loud and long chord washes, while the sub bass underneath moves away from root notes. The sound overwhelms the room and you. It’s hard to tell if the music is repeating or not. In… Continue reading
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