Thomas Brett
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Database: Laurel Halo On Keeping Your Own Sound At The Core
“For me it usually starts off with either coming up with a chord progression I haven’t quite heard before, a beat I haven’t heard before, a new type of sample. I’m always just trying out new things – Hour Logic is quite different from King Felix, which is quite different from the things I’ve done Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Neil Cowley’s “Cord” (2023)
Who Cares If You Listen? Continue reading
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Playing An Instrument, Playing A DAW, Omnimusicality
I’ve been thinking about how playing an acoustic musical instrument can be a model for producing music in DAW software. As I hear it, producers who approach their DAWs as instruments develop novel and idiosyncratic ways of creatively playing the technology rather than merely using it. This post compares the experiences of playing an instrument Continue reading
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Art About Music: Peter Doig’s “Music Shop”, “Music (2 Trees)”, “House of Music (Soca Boat)” (2019-2023)
Music Shop Music (2 Trees) House of Music (Soca Boat) Continue reading
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Database: Amon Tobin On Sampling
“[Sampling] was about capturing the energy the recording like a photograph. If you look at sports photographs–someone in mid-air jumping. You can tell what happened before and what’s going to happen after, but in that frozen moment you have all the energy of both things encapsulated. And that’s more or less how I viewed sampling: Continue reading
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Prepare Close At Hand Possibilities, Then Reap The Random
Recently I was building a track out of samples from one of my recordings. I was recycling bits of looped, pitched-down audio, delighting in defamiliarizing myself with music I knew well. Having found a few samples that got along, I reached the stage of being curious about how the audio converted to MIDI might sound Continue reading
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