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  • October 19, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Tim Harford On Slow Creativity

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    Creativity, slownesss
  • October 18, 2021

    Dub 19

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    sketch
  • October 15, 2021

    Art About Music: Johannes Vermeer’s “The Guitar Player” (c. 1672)

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    art about music
  • October 14, 2021

    L’Ocelle Mare’s “Piano, Banjo, Orgue, Metronome…” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • October 13, 2021

    Music Production Steps

    Creating new music involves many steps, not all of which necessarily involve playing notes, notating them, or recording them. For me, a workflow often involves six steps. Depending on the day, I’ll work on one or two of these steps, but almost never all of them. Each step is a different spoke in the compositional… Continue reading

    music production, workflow
  • October 12, 2021

    Minimals

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    minimals
  • October 8, 2021

    Piano Last October

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    piano music
  • October 7, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Jenny Odell’s “How To Do Nothing” (2019)

    “If we think about what it means to ‘concentrate’ or ‘pay attention’ at an individual level, it implies alignment: different parts of the mind and even the body acting in concert and oriented toward the same thing. To pay attention to one thing is to resist paying attention to other things; it means constantly denying… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
  • October 6, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks” “Spangle (Autechre Remix)” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • October 4, 2021

    Dub 12

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    sketch method
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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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