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  • April 2, 2021

    No. 53

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    chords, sketch
  • April 1, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Masayoshi Fujita’s “Thunder” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, marimba
  • March 31, 2021

    Art About Music: André Derain’s “Harlequin and Pierrot” (c. 1924)

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    art about music
  • March 30, 2021

    The Intensity Recruitment Concept

    In athletics there’s a concept called motor unit recruitment, which refers to how the body activates additional motor units (i.e. one motor neuron and the associated muscle fibers it stimulates) to accomplish an increase in muscle strength. An example of motor unit recruitment is how light exercise recruits the body’s slow-twitch motor units, while high… Continue reading

    intensities, Uncategorized
  • March 29, 2021

    P+Barp+B

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    sketch
  • March 26, 2021

    Curating The Week: Film Music, Clark, Metadata

    • A critical reading of film music. “JXL’s score is the kind of orchestral music that is easier to imagine from a synthesizer than an ensemble: one finger on the strings, another on the choral voices, a pinky sliding over to trigger the mournful military brass. The hand of Zimmer always feels present, in the… Continue reading

    Curating The Week
  • March 25, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Hannah Peel’s “Carbon Cycle” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • March 24, 2021

    Art About Music: Hose Honorato-Lozano’s “Harana” (1851)

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    Uncategorized
  • March 23, 2021

    Notes On Shifting Attentions: From Practicing To Performing

    “A categorization is a natural way of identifying a kind of object or experience by highlighting certain properties, downplaying others, and hiding still others…To highlight certain properties is necessarily to downplay or hide others, which is what happens whenever we categorize something. Focusing on one set of properties shifts our attention away from others. When… Continue reading

    attention, attentional arcs, Uncategorized
  • March 22, 2021

    CT5D

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    effects, sketch, subliminal feeling
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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

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  • Studio Observations: Listening To Improvisation

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