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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
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

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.