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  • July 26, 2021

    D 17

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    sketch, voice
  • July 23, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Chad Robertson On Documenting Trial And Error

    “I made most discoveries by exhaustive trial and error, over time gathering each lesson into a simple approach based on what I had learned. The approach was not rigidly scientific, but results were documented by concise shorthand notes and photos of the bread on days when something notable was achieved in crust or crumb.” –… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts, trial and error
  • July 22, 2021

    D 15

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    sketch, Uncategorized, voice
  • July 21, 2021

    Art About Music: “Chinese Musicians” (Anonymous, Chinese, 19th c.)

    This painting is of two drummers, but it’s the stark, blank space framing them that catches our attention the most. The space has no borders and it’s almost without depth as well, save for the faint shadows next to female drummer who stands. She sways with a small tom tom strapped over her left forearm,… Continue reading

    art about music
  • July 20, 2021

    Tacit

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    new music
  • July 19, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Robert Irwin On Beauty, Perception, And Framing

    “Beauty is all around you. You open your eyes in the morning, the world is totally formed. You haven’t done anything other than be. It’s all around you. The whole idea is being able to recognize it, and pay attention to it, articulate it.” I’m trying to make the most beautiful thing and knock your… Continue reading

    frames of attention, Resonant Thoughts
  • July 15, 2021

    DA 6

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    sketch
  • July 14, 2021

    Art About Music: Rembrandt’s “The Strolling Musicians” (c. 1635)

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    art about music
  • July 13, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Nadia Struiwigh’s “-5” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • July 12, 2021

    Process, Not Outcome

    “Musical processes can give one a direct contact with the impersonal and also a kind of complete control, and one doesn’t always think of the impersonal and complete control as going together. By ‘a kind’ of complete control I mean that by running this material through the process I completely control all that results, but… Continue reading

    musical process
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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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