Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: Chad Engelland’s “Phenomenology” (2020)
“Phenomenology recognizes an inner kinship between experience and language; the exhibited phenomena achieve a kind of completion when they are articulated. The challenge is to find a way of speaking that takes its bearings from the phenomena themselves and in this way lets them be exhibited and remembered as they are.” “Phenomenological books are trail Continue reading
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Database: Rrose On Putting Sound First
“I put a bunch of elements together, and if I hear something emerging out of those combinations of elements, that’s where I try and investigate further. Instead of getting an idea and thinking, ‘I want to make something that sounds like this’ and then figuring out how to make it, I’m putting a bunch of Continue reading
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Resist & Amplify
In music production you find yourself in situations that frame the music-in-progress in one way or another. Some of these situations you want to resist and some you want to amplify. You resist a situation when it constrains how the music could develop, and you amplify a situation when it encourages the music to go Continue reading
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Database: Chris Clark On The Zone of Just Dabbling
“I’m very fond of getting stuff down really quickly and rendering to groups and just condensing mass of recordings and then letting stuff fall away that isn’t hitting me.” “I find that abstract realm of experimentation—it’s such a great place to start to just experience ultimate freedom. You’re not thinking about making a hit; you’re Continue reading
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The Defining Part: Effects Chains
“I have loads of saved effects chains that I use constantly, created by myself, so I always think about these like my main plugins in a way.” Tom VR I was playing around with one of my piano sounds, but on the tiny keyboard, which isn’t the best for improvising because my hands can’t travel Continue reading
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Database: Sub Focus On Drones
“This tends to be something I start with a lot: I make drones in the key of the song that I’m working in. The way I normally do them is that I record a long pass of me playing an instrument. There’s one I made from a bleepy square wave patch in Serum which is Continue reading
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