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A Book
If you have enjoyed reading the essays on brettworks over the past eleven years, you may be interested in my book The Creative Electronic Music Producer, which will be released on July 2, 2021. The book examines the creative processes of electronic music production, from idea discovery and perception to the power of improvising, rhythm programming,… Continue reading
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Notes On Channel Surfing
When music is selling signifying associating manipulating entertaining showing off distracting sentimentalizing playing the hitsbeing difficult oversimplifying soundtracking something else change the station. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Tim Ingold’s “Correspondences” (2021)
“Words, spoken or handwritten, echo the pulse of things. They can caress, startle, enchant, repel…” “We might cease our endless writing about performance, and become performers ourselves.” “…we should work our words as craftsmen work their materials, in ways that testify, in their inscriptive traces, to the labour of their production, and that offer these… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Seefeel’s “Meol 2” (2021)
(The 2021 Playlist.) Continue reading
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Notes On In-Betweenness
While there is something to those old sayings trust the process and it’s the journey, not the destination, in music production the process/journey often has the distinctive quality of feeling like an in-between state. Recently, while working on a new project, it occurred to me to think more about in-betweenness. I had just begun something… Continue reading
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