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September 4, 2024

Musical System Lessons

“The album would not exist, really, without convert to harmony […] This system lets you produce a kind of trace, and its unreliability gives you this funny little grit of chaos that you can use to grow something cool.” Drew Daniel “I developed this system of taking samples of already existing components and extracting them Continue reading

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April 22, 2024

Repetition Lessons

(Photo: Brett Jordan) “Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.” Soren Kierkegaard “We may find it not so interesting to cook the same thing over and over again every day. It is rather tedious, you may say. If you lose the spirit of repetition it will become quite difficult…Anyway, we cannot keep still: 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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Musical System Lessons

Repetition Lessons