musical time stretching

March 19, 2021

Notes On Musical Tensions and Canon Counterpoints

Notation for Le Ray Au Soleyl by Johannes Ciconia (c. 1390s) What is it that keeps your attention when you encounter a music? Is it its instrumentation and timbre world? Its performers (human or machine)? Its melodies? Its chords and harmonies? Its feel and vibe? Its sheer volume? (That bass!) Its rhythms that make you Continue reading

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January 2, 2018

Brett’s Sound Picks: Paulstretching A-Ha’s “Take On Me”

(Paulstretch is software that slows down music to a fraction of its original speed, turning a pop song into a glacial soundscape.) 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.

musical time stretching

Notes On Musical Tensions and Canon Counterpoints

Brett’s Sound Picks: Paulstretching A-Ha’s “Take On Me”