Thomas Brett
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Energies In Music
When a music affects me strongly, I’ll listen to it over and over–because it’s fun but also to give myself time to think about what’s responsible for the music’s emotional impact. One way to think about this impact is in terms of different kinds of musical energies. Yes, we could just as easily use the terms Continue reading
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A Sequence That Never Repeats Artificially
When I record a sequence I always aim to play it though, without stopping, from a beginning to an end. There are easier ways to build a sequence. The easiest way is to record a few notes or a few measures and then copy them so that the sequence repeats as a self-contained block of Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Karl Bartos’s “The Sound of the Machine” (2022)
“The sequencer’s automatic sound sequences and the drum machine’s loops hypnotized me. These black boxes brought the trance quality of African, Indian and Asian musical cultures into pop music, a quality that had been the starting point for the minimalist concept.” “Working with automatic music machines is fundamentally different from human music-making, simply because machines Continue reading
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