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Arrows of Attention: Twelve Musical Notes
What you’re doing is important:maybe to you, maybe to others, maybe today, or one day. Music’s claim on our attention comes from its sense of urgency. The economic worth of a piece of music is a wildly inaccurate measure of its aesthetic value. Art is a gift, so what do you want to make knowing… Continue reading
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Shaker
Tensioned—inside repetition’s slipstreamsubdividing, accenting, flowingmaking rhythm palpable hand holding shakera gesture of 16th notessemiquavers stretching into years timeline is panoramahear the other soundstheir parts come and gopoints of departure and arrival they hold long tonesbut percussion dances staccatoaround the clickin headphones hear discrepancies always slightly ahead or behindthe metronome is perfectme I’m uneven still distilling… Continue reading
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(Un)Stuck
Paul Klee, Polyphony (1932) If you make things, you begin every day by being stuck and the way forward is to figure out how to get unstuck. Being stuck has as many forms as there are artists experiencing it. One form is apathy, or not feeling drawn in one direction or another with urgency. Another… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Florent Ghys/Aphex Twin’s “Rhubarb (arr. Florent Ghys for Bass and Electronics” (2026)
We probably don’t share the same taste in music… Continue reading
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