Thomas Brett
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Three Non-Obvious Production Principles
• Your initial sound matters, but only to a point, because your sound designing upon a sound will transform it far beyond what it was. The lesson: don’t obsess over your initial sounds. • The focus you apply to a track—or your time under tension/attention—is audible in the finished result. The lesson: finesse sounds all Continue reading
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Process, Not Outcome
Roy Lichtenstein, Landscape in Fog (1996) The saying, process, not outcome is the most actionable advice for building creative work. We can’t control the outcome of our work—such as whether it succeeds in doing what we hoped it would do, or whether others find it interesting, useful, beautiful, etc. But we can choose and commit Continue reading
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Listening To Autechre
When it occurs to me, I listen to Autechre on my commute and every time I do I’m rewarded with a listening experience that is unlike the time I spend listening to other musicians. What, I wonder, makes listening to Autechre’s music so unique? I thought of some answers to this question as I listened Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: James Bridle’s “Ways Of Being” (2022)
“The world is not like a computer. Computers – like us, like plants and animals, like clouds and seas – are like the world. Some more than others, some better attuned to its processes – and many not.” “As John Cage discovered through his use of the I Ching, a complex dance of chance-driven and Continue reading
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Consequences Of Sound
“I think sound is a very interesting phenomenon. Why people are so influenced by music: they didn’t know how strong the music influences us for good or for bad. You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, maybe there is also sound that is the opposite of killing. And the distance between Continue reading
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Intuitive Practice And Conventions Of Practice
While running recently I came across some construction spray painted markings on the road that got me thinking about the relationship between intuitions and conventions in artistic practice. I stopped at the edge of the road—I often look for reasons to interrupt a run—and studied the fluorescent markings. I saw a curved line with arrows on Continue reading
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