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  • December 4, 2020

    PS 3

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    ambient music, layering, sketch
  • December 2, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Leonard Koren’s “Musings Of A Curious Aesthete” (2020)

    “Beauty is typically associated with bringing new things into existence: A beautiful painting. A beautiful musical composition. Beautiful architecture…But beauty, I realized at that instant, can also be created and/or restored by removing things from existence. Like eliminating the visible consequences of thoughtless human action. That is what I did when picking up litter in… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
  • December 1, 2020

    Art About Music: Male Figure by Mbala artist, Democratic Republic of Congo (late 19th-early 20th c.)

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    art about music, drumming
  • November 30, 2020

    PS 1

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    Uncategorized
  • November 26, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Ernö Rubik’s “Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All” (2020)

    “I had no deadline. I simply enjoyed the problem I had stumbled upon and knew that, for me, working on a problem is a prerequisite for fostering–or liberating–my imagination.” “At its core, design is the link to nature for artificial objects. Nature does not know strict borders; it only knows transition. An understanding of the… Continue reading

    Creativity, design, Resonant Thoughts
  • November 25, 2020

    Art About Music: Jean-Antoine Watteau’s “The Country Dance” (c. 1706-1710)

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    art about music
  • November 24, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Sebastian Plano, Maarten Vos’s “Dense & Density” (2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • November 23, 2020

    cs80d 1.25

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    sketch
  • November 19, 2020

    Corda 1

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    sketch, Uncategorized
  • November 18, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Biosphere’s “Angel’s Flight” (2020)

    (Biosphere is a master at knowing how much less is more. There are only two sounds in this piece, but that is enough for the energy to maintain itself.) Brett’s Sound Picks 2020. Continue reading

    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.

Recent Posts

  • Unquantized (Remodel)
  • Curating The Week: The Brand Age, Selling Out, Sync Music
  • Resonant Thoughts: John Ashbery’s “A Wave” (1984)
  • Art About Music: Google’s Lyria 3 (2026)
  • Studio Observations: Listening To Improvisation

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