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  • August 23, 2021

    Unvoiced

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    Uncategorized
  • August 20, 2021

    Dub 27

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    dub
  • August 18, 2021

    Permissions

    Permission To Pursue The Enchanting. You want to be honest about recognizing the music that you find attractive, thoughtful, or compelling. Sometimes—oftentimes?—this music may not be what is widely popular, widely acclaimed, or widely known. Sometimes a magical music has a deceptively simple structure, or conjures vast emotional resonances from understated materials. (How does that… Continue reading

    enchantment, permissions, pulseology, workflow
  • August 17, 2021

    First Connection

    Bell Music Continue reading

    bells
  • August 16, 2021

    Bell Music

    Listen on Spotify, bandcamp Continue reading

    bells
  • August 13, 2021

    Lessons From The Creative Electronic Music Producer

    Two years ago I pitched a book idea to the editors of Routledge’s Perspectives In Music Production Series. At the time, I had written an article for their volume, Producing Music (Routledge, 2019), and since then had amassed dozens of production-related essays on this blog. My pitch was that these essays could anchor an inquiry… Continue reading

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  • August 12, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Steve Reich / Nexus, “Mallet Phase” (2021)

    When I listen to the early works of composer Steve Reich, I imagine that I’m a single pitch asked to carry out feats of endurance, steadiness, and synchronization. The composer has me traveling around tape loops, ricocheting off sets of bongos, and thrumming across marimbas in patterns like those multistable M.C. Escher staircases that go… Continue reading

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  • August 11, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Sarah Davachi’s “Border Of Mind” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • August 10, 2021

    Art About Music: Detail from “The Engagement of St Ursula and Prince Etherius” (tapestry, c. 1520)

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    art about music, Uncategorized
  • August 9, 2021

    Dub 21

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    dub, sketch
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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

  • Unquantized (Remodel)
  • Curating The Week: The Brand Age, Selling Out, Sync Music
  • Resonant Thoughts: John Ashbery’s “A Wave” (1984)
  • Art About Music: Google’s Lyria 3 (2026)
  • Studio Observations: Listening To Improvisation

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