Thomas Brett
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Notes On Form In Electronic Music Production
“A piece of writing ought not to be planned for a given size but developed to the length most suitable to the material, and no farther.” – John McPhee, Tabula Rasa If you’re a casual listener to electronic music, you may be forgiven for thinking that form in most styles of the genre is essentially Continue reading
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Error In Music Production
“…errors cause planes to crash, buildings to collapse, and knowledge to regress. The beneficial properties need to reside in the type of exposure, that is, the payoff function and not in the ‘luck’ part: there needs to be a significant asymmetry between the gains (as they need to be large) and the errors (small or Continue reading
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Demo Thinking
It isn’t hard to begin a new piece of music, because you can begin anywhere and build out from there. But what is hard is the self-imposed pressure to make what you’re working on a polished piece—a piece that sounds finished. I sometimes feel this pressure way too early in the production process and find Continue reading
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