Thomas Brett
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Running As Psychogeography
Passing through a residential neighborhood in Queens about a mile and a half from where I live there’s a long road, 21st Avenue, with a series of hills that I look forward to running on most days. The road’s total length is maybe a mile and a half, but feels like an adventure to train Continue reading
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Database: Actress On Sound Discovery
“The actual aesthetic of insane digital sound processing is not really where I’m coming from, I’m much more interested in textures and how sounds which probably shouldn’t work together are able to bend and cooperate. How sounds, once you’ve built some rudimentary programming blocks, just get let go and form the genesis of how ideas Continue reading
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Musicians Are Like Magicians
“Music falls on the silence like a sense,A passion that we feel, not understand.” – Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” Musicians are like magicians,they conjure tricks in sound,like a rabbit from the hator notes behind the ear. Musicians are like magicians,they redirect our attentionwith gesturing hands,striking and strumming,chords become colors. Musicians are like Continue reading
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Database: John Cale On Breaking Points
“You have to understand that the breaking point of some of the equipment, and the breaking point of some of the ideas, they are very close to each other.” John Cale database. Continue reading
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Keywords: Amplify
To amplify is to turn a quiet sound into a louder sound, making the small gargantuan, putting sound details under an audio microscope to hear them better. Amplify is boosted signal and boosted signal is now up close, foregrounded, the center of your attention. When we amplify a sound we solo its details, boost its Continue reading
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