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  • January 29, 2021

    Musicologists’ Talk

    “Gaps found in our speech thinking about music may be suspected of being areasof music thinking.” – Charles Seeger A while ago I listened to a podcast on which two musicologists were talking about the music of a well known living composer whose music I know well. The musicologists were talking about the usual stuff—what… Continue reading

    music discourse
  • January 28, 2021

    Curating The Week: Algorithms, Emergence, and Minimalism

    • An article on art and algorithms. “Human creativity has always been a response to the immense strangeness of reality, and now its subject has evolved, as reality becomes increasingly codeterminate, and intermingled, with computation. If that statement seems extreme, consider the extent to which our fundamental perceptions of reality – from research in the… Continue reading

    Curating The Week, Uncategorized
  • January 27, 2021

    Sketches: Shadowed

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    musical analogies, new music
  • January 26, 2021

    Sketches: What If

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    Uncategorized
  • January 25, 2021

    Counterpoints

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    counterpoint, sketch
  • January 22, 2021

    Counter Rhythm

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    new music
  • January 21, 2021

    Ever Now

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    new music, off the grid
  • January 20, 2021

    Reveal

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    Uncategorized
  • January 19, 2021

    Resonant Thoughts: John Cleese’s “Creativity” (2020)

    “So you just sit there and, eventually, as the mind quietens, odd ideas and notions relevant to your puzzle start popping in your mind. But they are…odd! And the reason they seem odd is that they’re not what our usual logical, critical, analytical mind is used to. They don’t arrive in the form of words,… Continue reading

    Creativity, Resonant Thoughts
  • January 18, 2021

    Keeping Still

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    new music
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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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