Thomas Brett
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Art About Music: The Luttrell Psalter (1325-1340)
(left to right: musicians playing harp, pipe and tabor, organistrum, and portative organ) Continue reading
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Mix Lessons: Relational Listening
Recently I was working on a mix for a piece of music with eight parts: percussion, piano, vibraphone, bass, pad, and voices. The piece has two percussion parts, the first comprising a kick-snare-clap-hi hat drum pattern, and the second a top loop part, which is a beat (extracted from another, earlier piece) consisting of mostly Continue reading
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On “Going Classical”: String Arrangements Of Pop Music In Bridgerton
“Bridgerton matched Victorian morality with enlightened heroines, and progressive attitudes with a lavish regency aesthetic. And nowhere was the blend of old and new more evident, than in the music. – Maddy Shaw Roberts, Bridgerton Season 2 soundtrack: every pop song with a classical cover “Nobility, warmth, and equality of tone from one end of Continue reading
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