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Brett’s Sound Picks: Deaf Center’s “Undone” (2019)
Follow Brett’s Sound Picks 2019 here. (Listen to Brett’s Sound Picks 2018 here.) Continue reading
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On Clearly Articulating
articulate—express an idea or feeling fluently or coherently (from Latin articulare ‘divide into joints’) Well-articulated music has amazing communicative power, and when I listen to other musicians play the first thing I notice is how it articulates (or not). For drummers and percussionists, it’s impossible to hide behind sloppy articulation because the sounds we make… Continue reading
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Tweaking A Beat
The beat could be anything, or something quite simple. The beat was for nothing, or for being interesting in itself, for creating a mood. I choose the kit at random and found its kick and snare: boom – – – kah – – boom – – boom – kah – – – A generic a place… Continue reading
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City Music
Not sure how music lives in the country but in the city it lives in headphones powering people up boom—gah-boom—gah boom—gah-boom—gah making force fields demarcating space keeping the party to yourself. Continue reading
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Frames Of Attention: Deciding On Musical Materials
One of the primary tasks involved in building a piece of music, a piece of writing, and I imagine a piece of visual art, is figuring out as early as possible in the process what materials you’ll be working with. For most of us, our process won’t reveal itself until we’re further along it, so… Continue reading

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