Thomas Brett
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On Beginning Music Not With Silence
Consider an idea: begin a piece of music not with silence, but with a soundscape from nature playing through your speakers or headphones. Use this soundscape not as a part of your piece or the piece itself but as a springboard for the first sounds you’ll make or use, the first first chords you’ll play, the first beat you’ll… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ira Glass On Taste And Work
“All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Girolamo Frescobaldi’s “Fiori musicali: Toccata per le levatione, F 12.31” (1635) Arr. bY Anna-Liisa Eller
(One of my favorite recordings of 2021. Information on the kannel is here.) (Playlist.) Continue reading
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