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May 22, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Rainer Veil’s “Sim Screen” (2019)

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May 15, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Plaid’s “Los” (2019)

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May 8, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Caterina Barbieri’s “Fantas” (2019)

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May 1, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Amon Tobin’s “On a Hilltop Sat the Moon” (2019)

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April 17, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano’s “You” (2019)

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April 10, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Deaf Center’s “Yet To Come” (2019)

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April 3, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia, and Daniel Lentz’s “Music For 3 Pianos” (1991)

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March 27, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Deaf Center’s “Undone” (2019)

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March 20, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Nivhek’s “Walking in a spiral towards the house: Side C” (2019)

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March 7, 2019

Brett’s Sound Picks: Tim Hecker’s “That World” (2019)

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Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.