Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: Niklas Luhmann On Taking Notes And Producing Accidents (1981)
“The communication with the slip box becomes fruitful only at a high level of generalization, namely that of establishing communicative relations of relations. And it becomes productive only at the moment of evaluation, and is thus bound to a certain time and is to a high degree accidental. […] The real problem thus becomes therefore Continue reading
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Lessons From The Creative Electronic Music Producer
Two years ago I pitched a book idea to the editors of Routledge’s Perspectives In Music Production Series. At the time, I had written an article for their volume, Producing Music (Routledge, 2019), and since then had amassed dozens of production-related essays on this blog. My pitch was that these essays could anchor an inquiry Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Steve Reich / Nexus, “Mallet Phase” (2021)
When I listen to the early works of composer Steve Reich, I imagine that I’m a single pitch asked to carry out feats of endurance, steadiness, and synchronization. The composer has me traveling around tape loops, ricocheting off sets of bongos, and thrumming across marimbas in patterns like those multistable M.C. Escher staircases that go Continue reading
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