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Resonant Thoughts: James Wood’s “Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997–2019” (2020)
“…his essay ‘Music Discomposed’, the philosopher Stanley Cavell says that the critic’s first gesture is: ‘You have to hear it.’ Why, he asks, do you have to hear it? Because, he says, with a deliberate risk of tautology, ‘if I don’t hear it, I don’t know it’, and works of art are ‘objects of the Continue reading
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What’s The Driver?: Musical Inspiration Versus Musical Process
When you upload a track to Spotify you’re given an opportunity to write a short pitch to have the music considered for one of Spotify’s three thousand “editorial” playlists. The pitch format is strict: check a few boxes about what instruments are featured (e.g. “synthesizer”, “violin”, “bouzooki”, “sampler”…), what music culture you’re operating in (e.g. Continue reading
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How I Use Brett’s Sound Picks
My Spotify playlist, Brett’s Sound Picks 2018, is an ever-growing collection of favorite pieces of music from the past year. Once a week I comb through new releases in search of good stuff—and I keep finding it. The playlist now has almost 80 tracks. I listen to it often to get ideas, pressing Shuffle to Continue reading
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