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  • September 30, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Igor Levit/Johannes Brahms/ Ferruccio Busoni: “6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122/10” (1896/1902/2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • September 29, 2020

    Art About Music: Paul Gauguin’s “Musique Barbare” (1893)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • September 28, 2020

    No. 97

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    sketch
  • September 25, 2020

    Getting Granular: Notes On Obsessive Listening

    I have a habit of obsessively listening to certain pieces of music, while ignoring vast swathes of new releases—intending to get to them sometime, but I won’t. What’s up with that? An answer is that such obsessive listening is an antidote to an excess of options as to what to listen to. Now that music… Continue reading

    getting granular, obsessive listening
  • September 24, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Ikonika On Arrangements

    “I’m trying to exhaust what I’ve got. I’m trying to keep things simple, and build layers, basically. And so when I make a tune, I will concentrate on 8 bars at a time. But that first 8 bar loop has to bang for me, and I have to be able to listen to that loop… Continue reading

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  • September 23, 2020

    Art About Music: Théodore Géricault’s “The Piper” (1821)

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    art about music
  • September 22, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Olivier Alalry and Johannes Malfatti’s “I can’t Even See Myself” (2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • September 21, 2020

    Five Lines

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    Electronic music
  • September 18, 2020

    Fractal Studies 2: Sky Divided

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    fractal studies, musical analogies
  • September 17, 2020

    Art About Music: Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Music, Pink and Blue No. 2” (1918)

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    art about 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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