Thomas Brett
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Database: Thom Yorke On Speed Of Access And The Weird Fight
“The speed of access is now a problem over everything. You know, quick decisions, throw away, modify, constant automation on your DAW. That stuff is all well and good, but the reason people are going back to previous stuff is that everyone is looking for forms of restriction, I think. (…) You throw something in Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jaron Lanier’s “What My Musical Instruments Have Taught Me” (2023)
“Some of my favorite moments in musical life come when I can’t yet play an instrument. It’s in the fleeting period of playing without skill that you can hear sounds beyond imagination.” “In Western countries, the social institutions that kept classical music alive—conservatories, instrument builders, teachers, contests—were being sustained by an influx of stunning musicians Continue reading
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Listening To Old Track Ideas
I try to stay organized with my music, but I don’t have a surefire way of keeping track of everything I’ve done. What happens is that as unfinished pieces accumulate I assume that I’ll remember the ones with potential–that they’ll somehow float to top of mind. But my remembering is influenced by what’s in front Continue reading
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12 Accidental Epistemologies
Keep Trying (Effort) Finesse It (Craft) Make Errors (Freewheeling) It’s Not Working, Right? (Reality Check) Ah, Finally! (Insight) Is It Unclear? (Discernment) That’s Derivative (Genealogies Of Artistic Influence) Identify The Macro In The Micro (Thinking Fractally) Concentrate The Experience (Intensifying, Distilling) Differences Make The Difference (Details Are Meaningful Details) Consistency Beats Intensity (Performance, Paced Over Continue reading
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Database: Biosphere On The Fragment
“I work a lot on the fragment. Even when I am in the studio, I think it is the unit of language which then develops the rest. Even in the approach to Monteverdi, I worked on the fragment, I would say even on the fragmented nature of the creative process: I worked on sound tissue Continue reading
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Keywords: Feedback
Feedback not in the sense of a microphone in front of a speaker, shrieking frequencies, but as one track plugged into another, connected, folding the music upon itself like a mixing board bent into origami. Feedback as returning this sound upon that sound, output becoming input becoming output again, in an infinite loop. Try to Continue reading
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