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Brett’s Sound Picks: Martyn Heyne’s “The Hall” (2020)
(Note: This is the most beautiful music I’ve heard so far this year. Heyne’s guitar-delay instrumentation is sparse, the music goes on a journey, and the chords are deeply inventive.) Follow Brett’s Sound Picks 2020 here. Continue reading
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Notes On Curation
There is a music software plug-in by XLN Audio called XO which displays all of your computer’s one shot audio samples visually as colored dots against a black space. Each dot represents a different sample, and each cluster of similarly colored dots represents a class of sounds grouped by timbre and pitch (e.g. deep-pitched kick… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: William Basinski’s “Tear Vial” (2020)
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Notes On Production Clichés
“Beware of clichés…There are clichés of response as well as expression.There are clichés of observation and of thought–even of conception.”–Geoff Dyer I struck out a bit yesterday when I tried making something. I liked the sound, but the melody was hackneyed. It was so bad, so uninteresting, that I recorded it as a reminder that this… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Nassim Taleb On Tinkering
“It is in complex systems, ones in which we have little visibility of the chains of cause-consequences, that tinkering, bricolage, or similar variations of trial and error have been shown to vastly outperform the teleological —it is nature’s modus operandi. (…) Take the most opaque of all, cooking, which relies entirely on the heuristics of… Continue reading
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