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  • September 1, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Mary Lattimore’s “We Wave From Our Boats” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • August 31, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Kyle Beachy’s “The Most Fun Thing” (2021)

    “In a world increasingly data driven and surveilled, skateboarding lives beneath scoring and resists all datazation by establishing everything as a performance. It deflects the surveillance state by its primal devotion to documenting and sharing itself, monitoring every possible development, repetition, and failure. It preempts the onslaught of observation by embracing it. To preempt is… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
  • August 30, 2021

    Echo Returns

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  • August 27, 2021

    PE 3

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  • August 26, 2021

    Art About Music: William Sidney Mount’s “The Power of Music” (1847)

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    art about music
  • August 25, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Lee Gamble’s “Hyperpassive” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, musical texture
  • August 24, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Niklas Luhmann On Taking Notes And Producing Accidents (1981)

    “The communication with the slip box becomes fruitful only at a high level of generalization, namely that of establishing communicative relations of relations. And it becomes productive only at the moment of evaluation, and is thus bound to a certain time and is to a high degree accidental. […] The real problem thus becomes therefore… Continue reading

    creative epistemologies, note-taking
  • August 23, 2021

    Unvoiced

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  • 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
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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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