Thomas Brett
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Workflow Advice Developed, Not Given
Be comfortable with solitary work, committing to aesthetic decisions (Is this sufficiently enchanting? Is it balanced just so?), and trusting your own counsel. Always work towards the next thing. The current piece may not be ideal, but take learnings from it into the next one. Use your work as a means to refine your default.… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Brian Eno On Attention
“I’m addicted to the idea that you put yourself in a place and surrender to it. It’s about making space for a kind of attention that you’re not normally offered by entertainment media.” – Brian Eno MPD Continue reading
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Notes On Musical Remixes, Reimaginings, Afters, Recomposeds, Remodels, And Alternative Versions
“Music is so tied up in ideas, concepts, and the sonic properties of equipment, that it might often be more correct to talk about something’s continuing life cycle than it is to call it X’s remix of Y by Z.” – Jennifer Lucy Allan, Wire (2012) “Basically, a remixer/producer is taking your ideas and glorifying… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist As A Vocation” (2022)
“The key component is not the quality of the materials—what’s needed is magic. If that magic is present, the most basic daily matters and the plainest language can be turned into a device of surprising sophistication. Their only recourse is to throw open their garage doors, drag out whatever they have stored away to that… Continue reading
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Recursive Music Production
No matter how elaborate a musical system a producer works with, no matter how much or how little gear one uses, the most foolproof technique for creating sounds, parts, and structures is one that incorporates recursion. Recursion is the process of repeating items in a self-similar way. In the natural world, recursive structures are found in… Continue reading
