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  • September 17, 2021

    Music In The Great British Bake Off

    While music doesn’t have inherent universal meanings, it is one of the most potent steerers of emotion. Perhaps in a more visceral way than painting or literature, music is literally airborne affect—sound waves vibrating us—that ushers listeners though realms of emotion in real time. Music moves us from happy to sad in a chord, or… Continue reading

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  • September 16, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Seth Godin’s “The Practice” (2021)

    “Ship creative work. On a schedule. Without attachment and without reassurance. The internet brings uninvited energy, positive and negative, to the work we set out to do. It opens an infinite spigot of new ideas, new tools, and new people for the project. If you want to create your work, it might pay to turn… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
  • September 15, 2021

    Brett’s SounD PICKS: STIMMING X LAMBERT’S “NEWBORN” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • September 14, 2021

    Dub 26

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  • September 13, 2021

    Six Notes On Music Production Workflows

    Produce accidents and cultivate disorders. As much as you might want to be in control of the creative process, your most powerful skill is finding ways to produce accidents of timbre, rhythm, melodic/harmonic juxtaposition and relationship, and arrangement. For example, musical accidents might transpire when two rhythms are misaligned, when a melody’s counterpoint is inverted,… Continue reading

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  • September 10, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Stimming On Music And Empathy

    “The biggest achievement for music is empathy. You can transform into someone else’s emotional state. And you can go into situations where it’s incredibly difficult to find the right words. Music in general is somewhere between words…Music morphs you into the one who created it.” – Martin Stimming, Hanging Out With Audiophiles podcast, Episode 89 Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
  • September 9, 2021

    147 bpm

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    beats per minute
  • September 8, 2021

    Art About music: Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawings of a Mechanical Organ and Timpani Drums (c. 1478-1518)

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  • September 7, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Synkro’s “Agate” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • September 6, 2021

    Dub 5

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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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