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  • August 6, 2021

    Wave Tones

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    ocean waves, sketch
  • August 5, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: J. Krishnamurti On Listening

    Putting Aside Screens “How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the… Continue reading

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  • August 4, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Joep Beving & Alva Noto’s “Hanging D – Alva Noto Remodel” (2021)

    (The 2021 Playlist.) Continue reading

    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • August 3, 2021

    Art About Music: William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s “The Bohemian” (1890)

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    art about music
  • August 2, 2021

    Dub 24

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    sketch
  • July 30, 2021

    Curating The Week: Research, Twitter, Creativity

    • A talk by Richard W. Hamming. “If you are deeply immersed and committed to a topic, day after day after day, your subconscious has nothing to do but work on your problem. And so you wake up one morning, or on some afternoon, and there’s the answer. For those who don’t get committed to… Continue reading

    Curating The Week
  • July 28, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: The Black Dog’s “Low Edged Perspective” (2021)

    (The 2021 Playlist.) Continue reading

    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • July 27, 2021

    Art About Music: Suggested ASMR Soundscape Videos On YouTube (2021)

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    ASMR, soundscapes
  • July 26, 2021

    D 17

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    sketch, voice
  • July 23, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Chad Robertson On Documenting Trial And Error

    “I made most discoveries by exhaustive trial and error, over time gathering each lesson into a simple approach based on what I had learned. The approach was not rigidly scientific, but results were documented by concise shorthand notes and photos of the bread on days when something notable was achieved in crust or crumb.” –… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts, trial and error
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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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