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  • December 24, 2021

    Working Quickly, Working Slowly 

    There are two main ways I work, both of which have their upsides and downsides. The first way is relatively quick, uninterrupted, and takes place over a single session. If work on the music began around 10am, I might be done by 2pm. Not done done, but having decided upon most of the piece’s main… Continue reading

    workflow
  • December 23, 2021

    Curating The Week: Attention, Time, Decolonizing Electronic Music Software

    • An essay about attention (and time). “The phrase attention economy poses attention as a commodity to be portioned off and sold, usually on the internet. (We also say that attention is something to be ‘paid.’) But maybe attention is more a state of mind, akin to happiness or disgust, than a currency. It’s a feeling, a… Continue reading

    Curating The Week
  • December 22, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Huerco S.’s “Plonk VI” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • December 21, 2021

    Art About Music: Salvador Dali’s “Music – The Red Orchestra” (1957)

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  • December 20, 2021

    Cadences 10

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  • December 17, 2021

    Keeping The Hands In Play

    (Photo: Gerrit Dou’s “A Woman Playing A Clavichord”, c. 1665) “The musician, like the writer or speaker, regularly confronts his conduct as performance or not.” David Sudnow, Talk’s Body (1979), p. 65. 1. Whenever I feel I’m disconnected from the musical because I’ve been looking at the screen and tinkering with parameters too much, I… Continue reading

    play, playing music
  • December 16, 2021

    Resonant thoughts: Kalefa Sanneh’s “Major Labels” (2021)

    “When I was working as a pop music critic, I tried not to think too much about quality—at least not directly. My belief, then as now, was that there was no useful difference between loving a song and considering it good, or between not liking one and considering it bad. (If it is possible for… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
  • December 15, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Ian Hawgood And Wil Bolton’s “Emerging” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • December 14, 2021

    Art About Music: Jose Manuel Capuletti’s “Allegory Of Music” (1946)

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  • December 13, 2021

    Dub 4

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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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