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thinking through music

August 31, 2020

Piano, kick, shaker

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piano music, Uncategorized
August 28, 2020

Curating The Week: Chairs, Pandit Jasraj, Systems Thinking

• An article on the ergonomics of chairs. “Chairs are generally not a response to the realities of the body, its natural evolution, or its needs over any extended period. Instead, the industrialised body has devolved in its needs and succumbed to chairs.” • Pandit Jasraj (1930-2020). “A very senior musician brought my relationship with… Continue reading

Curating The Week, Uncategorized
August 27, 2020

Art About Music: Romare Bearden’s “Three Folk Musicians” (1967)

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art about music
August 26, 2020

Brett’s Sound Picks: Illuminine’s “Apprehension, Pt. 2 (Luis Alvarez Rework)” (2020)

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piano music
August 25, 2020

Resonant Thoughts: Zeynep Tufekci on Asystemic Thinking And Complex Systems

“We failed to understand that complex systems defy simplistic reductionism…Tipping points, phase transitions (water boiling or freezing), and cascades and avalanches (when a few small changes end up triggering massive shifts) are all examples of nonlinear dynamics in which the event doesn’t follow simple addition in its impacts.” – Zeynep Tufekci Continue reading

complex systems
August 24, 2020

No. 26

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Electronic music
August 23, 2020

Books On Attention

Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff.Nicholas Carr, The Shallows.Cal Newport, Deep Work.Greg McKeown, Essentialism.Nir Eyal, Indistractable.Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing.Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants.Winifred Gallagher, Rapt.Stefan Van der Stigchel, Concentration. Continue reading

attention
August 17, 2020

No. 78

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Electronic music, sketch

electronic music
August 14, 2020

179 BPM

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beats per minute, sketch, Small Thoughts, speed, speed
August 10, 2020

Still

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drone, Electronic music, layering, sketch, Uncategorized

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.