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  • July 26, 2025

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Ganavya’s “madi” (2025)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • July 25, 2025

    102 Bpm Dub

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    dub-ish, Uncategorized
  • July 24, 2025

    Music’s Negative Space

    M.C. Escher, Sky and Water I (1938) Pause the music that soundtracks you.Notice silence, music’s other half. Listen to its space, your thoughts, the wind.Tune in to a soundscape without spacing out. To hear what music is saying, experience what it replaces. Continue reading

    negative epistemology, perception
  • July 23, 2025

    Resonant Thoughts: Thomas de Zengotita’s “Mediated” (2006)

    “Say your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere—the middle of Saskatchewan, say. You have no radio, no cell phone, nothing to read, no gear to fiddle with. You just have to wait. Pretty soon you notice how everything around you just happens to be there. And it just happens to be there in Continue reading

    mediation
  • July 22, 2025

    Curating The Week: Fake AI Bands, AI’s Effects on Writing and Reading

    • An article on fake AI bands. “The internet has fragmented and flattened subcultures. The Velvet Sundown’s puppeteers present the band’s soft pastiche of genres—psychedelic, folk, indie—as sophisticated fusion, but of course it’s nothing more than a careless smear of stylistic averages. Psychedelic, folk, and indie rock each in their own way have something to Continue reading

    AI, Curating The Week
    AI, artificial-intelligence, music, technology, writing
  • July 21, 2025

    Piano Pulsations

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    atelier
  • July 18, 2025

    BPM Dubs

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    dub-ish
  • July 17, 2025

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Joep Beving and Maarten Vos’ “Friends Making Music” (2025)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • July 10, 2025

    In Unison

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    atelier
  • July 7, 2025

    Sine Study

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    atelier, Uncategorized
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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.

Recent Posts

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