Thomas Brett
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Art About Music: Jan Saenredam’s “Sense of Hearing” (c. 1575-1657)
“Do not open your ears to the flattering sirens, that with sweet songs they hurt with charm.” Continue reading
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Database: Skee Mask On Not Just Reveling In The Sound and Not Understanding Devices Completely
“I try to make everything myself. Even when I just sample, I really try to program with the sample so that I’m not just reveling in the sound of the sample so that it doesn’t sound at all the way that it did before rhythmically. I try to somehow breathe new life into it from Continue reading
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Keywords: Dub
Dub is the echo traces of a sound that just happened, a response following its call, extending the traces as they float on rhythm trajectories. Sound engineers in Jamaica (King Tubby, Lee Perry) were the first to hear dub’s potential, building gear to harness it, hearing the negative space opened up when you mute one Continue reading
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Keywords: Alive At Many Levels At Once
Making music alive on many levels at once is the point of both producing music and a necessary tool for suspending the listener’a disbelief in music’s fiction. Music alive on many levels at once hinges on presence, variation, interaction, responsiveness, suggestion, hidden depths, and arranging multiple elements to function as a whole in easy synergy. Continue reading
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Keywords: And Then…
And Then… is a technique of stepwise progression, a way of moving from, and building upon, where you are to where you’ll be next. It requires only what you currently have to get going—a sound, a few chords, a tempo. This is flaneur music production—wandering by ear towards the interesting sounds, moving in a direction Continue reading
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