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December 29, 2023

Keywords: Iteration

(Photo: Katja Anokhina) Iteration is the production strategy of growing your music by tinkering over time with the goal of moving a track ever closer to having the right form for its feeling and right feeling for its form. Six examples from a thousand possibilities: begin with a plain drum sound and complexify it, give Continue reading

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June 19, 2023

Keep Iterating

(Photo: Adarsh Kummur) “We improved our demos in incremental steps. We evolved our work by slowly converging on better versions of the vision.” Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection, p. 221 “While engaged in tinkering, you incur a lot of small losses, then once in a while you find something rather significant.” Nassim Taleb, Antifragile, p. 236 Continue reading

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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.

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Keywords: Iteration

Keep Iterating