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  • December 16, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Lorenzo Senni’s “Vandalize Music” (2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, mind expansion
  • December 15, 2020

    Art About Music: Jacob Lawrence’s “Blind Musician” (1942)

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    art about music
  • December 14, 2020

    Two Lines

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    sketch, sketch method, slownesss, Small Thoughts
  • December 11, 2020

    Twenty Frames For Thinking About Creativity

    Adjacent possible. This concept describes how biological systems can transform into more complex systems via small changes or gated rates of discovery. It comes from Stuart Kauffman, who writes in his book Investigations (2002) that  “a biosphere gates its way into the adjacent possible at just that rate at which its inhabitants can just manage… Continue reading

    creative strategies, Uncategorized
  • December 10, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Paul Morley’s “A Sound Mind” (2020)

    Everyone could find what they wanted now, quickly and efficiently, guided by genial, anonymous calculations, by ever-increasing playlists, by a proliferation of genres that almost bureaucratically processed and filed music for driving, sleeping, motivating, studying, eating, chilling, isolation, concentrating, shopping, swapping, dancing, night-time, Thursday. It became a world that was looking for user-friendly tips and… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts, Uncategorized
  • December 9, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Olivia Belli’s “Lullaby for a Distant Angel (After Beethoven)” (2020)

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    Uncategorized
  • December 8, 2020

    Art About Music: Romare Bearden’s “Sitting In at Barron’s” (1980)

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    art about music
  • December 7, 2020

    H 14 12.6

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    sketch
  • 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
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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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