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September 15, 2020

Brett’s Sound Picks: Moondog’s “Oo Debut” (1956/2020)

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Brett’s Sound Picks
September 14, 2020

No. 45

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sketch
September 11, 2020

Curating The Week: Creativity, Loss, Long Chords

• An article about creativity in the digital era. “Today, seventy-seven percent of music industry revenue goes to the top one per cent of content producers.” • An essay on creativity and the normalization of loss. “It’s not just the loss of creation, but also the insidious way in which that loss has been normalized,… Continue reading

Curating The Week
September 9, 2020

Art About Music: Fernand Pelez’s “La Vachalcade” (1896)

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art about music
September 9, 2020

Brett’s Sound Picks: Actress’s “Walking Flames” (2020)

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Brett’s Sound Picks
September 8, 2020

No. 89

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singing bowl music, sketch
September 7, 2020

Fractal Studies 1: Time Divided

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fractal studies
September 3, 2020

Resonant Thoughts: John Salvatier’s “Reality has a surprising amount of detail” (2017)

“The direction for improvement is clear: seek detail you would not normally notice about the world. When you go for a walk, notice the unexpected detail in a flower or what the seams in the road imply about how the road was built. When you talk to someone who is smart but just seems so wrong,… Continue reading

Uncategorized
September 2, 2020

Brett’s Sound Picks: Ian Hawgood’s “The Endless Sadness of the Shoreless Heart” (2020)

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Brett’s Sound Picks
September 1, 2020

Art About Music: Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh’s “The Lutenist” (1661) and Joan Miró i Ferrà’s “Dutch Interior I” (1928)

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art about music

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.