Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: Nicholas Worrall On Unmasked Sounds
“Having things so that they’re not in any way masked, so that they’re really crisp, clear images in sound. So that you can always identify the source of the sound. It’s like a really vivid version of the thing that you’re hearing.” – Nicholas Worrall Continue reading
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Accretion By Small Decisions
When I’m making music I try to prioritize the performative parts of my workflow over other, more technical tasks, because performing—which can be defined as committing to a concentrated state over time—intuitively feels like the most musical thing I can do (and it’s something I’ve practiced). I’ve written here about the urgency of performance and Continue reading
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Shifting Frames Of Reference
If you work in tandem with digital music technologies, you may find yourself adrift in possibilities and a prisoner of recency bias, as your focus slips and slides and your attention wanders towards whatever seems most exciting right now. One way to mobilize this scatter and focus your work is to commit to whatever sound Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Teddy Rok’s “Awake” (2022)
2022 playlist here Continue reading
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Notes On Dylan Henner’s Marimba Music
“I still believe that the primary virtue and usefulness of criticism resides precisely in its limitations—in the fact that the critic’s fragile linguistic tryst with the visible object is always momentary, ephemeral, and local to its context. The experience blooms up in the valley of its saying, to borrow W.H. Auden’s phrase, but it does Continue reading
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