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  • March 3, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Shivkumar Sharma’s “Raga Bhinna Kauns” (2021)

    (Listen to the dynamic range, down to whisper soft.) (Brett’s Sound Picks 2021.) Continue reading

    Brett’s Sound Picks, raga
  • March 2, 2021

    Mood Reel

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    it doesn’t matter how blog posts are tagged, sketch
  • March 1, 2021

    Pulsations

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    pulsation, pulseology, sketch
  • February 26, 2021

    [Untitled]

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    mindware, ocean waves, studio monitors, study music, thought tools
  • February 25, 2021

    Creative Notes: What The Tech Does, What We Do

    The tech calculates, we wonder What if?The tech measures, we balance.The tech generates data sets, we create ad hoc.The tech recalls perfectly, we remember fleetingly.The tech suggests if this, then that?, we associate by other means.The tech presents patterns, we seek meanings.The tech proliferates options, we seek constraints.The tech makes loops and redundancies, we make… Continue reading

    creative notes, human-technology interaction, tacit knowledge, techno-musical systems, Technology
  • February 24, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Thys & Noordpool Orchestra’s “Turning Point” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • February 22, 2021

    Z arp P

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    sketch
  • February 19, 2021

    Curating The Week: Drumming, Oral Culture, and Whistling

    • DRUMMINGat50, a website about the history, composition, and performance practice of Steve Reich’s Drumming, a seminal piece of 20th- (and 21st-) century acoustic music. I contributed an essay, which is here. • Zenep Tufecki on the psychodynamics of oral culture. “…oral culture is not suited to certain kinds of knowledge accumulation and legibility of… Continue reading

    Curating The Week, drumming, Uncategorized
  • February 18, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: Gábor Lázár on Musical Sketches

    “Usually I try to find a balance between a rhythmic pattern and filter modulations which together articulate some interesting quality. For me, sketch is a strange word because it means something like trying to manifest an idea. Of course I have some kind of idea, but many times I just look at my idea as… Continue reading

    complex systems, creative strategies, Creativity, Resonant Thoughts
  • February 16, 2021

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Abul Mogard’s “Sand” (2021)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
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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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