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  • July 29, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Christina Vantzou’s “Snow White” (2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • July 28, 2020

    Production Knowing: How Do You Know When It’s Something Musically New?

    How do we know when the music we’re making is actually new? What signs might indicate this newness? Are the signs in the sounds or in our our changing attention to them? • It feels like nothing is happening because musically speaking, nothing is happening. I’m clicking through sounds, looking at the screen, waiting. I… Continue reading

    production knowing, Production Stories, Uncategorized
  • July 27, 2020

    148 BPM

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    beats, Electronic music, exploding musical moments, music production, Uncategorized
  • July 23, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Richard Askwith’s “Running Free” (2015)

      “A startlingly high proportion of my happiest memories of running involved getting lost.” “Never mind the outcome. Run in the moment; if the moment is in nature, run in nature, too. Focus on what you are doing and where you are doing it. You will rarely return the same as when you started out.”… Continue reading

    focus, getting lost, Uncategorized
  • July 22, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: r beny’s “Alpenglow” (2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, musical taste, Uncategorized
  • July 21, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Francois J. Bonnet’s “The Music To Come” (2020)

    Advent of the Musical “The challenge of any musical creation must be to invent the conditions of possibility for an appearing of the musical, but nothing else, because that is all that lies within its power. You don’t create music; you create environments condusive to the advent of music” (30). On Music “Books about music… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts, Uncategorized
  • July 20, 2020

    Piano and Metals 2

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    Electronic music, finger cymbals, kalimba, piano music, Uncategorized
  • July 15, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Christine Ott’s “Comma” (2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • July 14, 2020

    Notes On Blogging

    Blogging is part of the social internet, as opposed to the walled-off apps of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram…). You own your blog web address and its content instead of renting space from companies intent on keeping you inside their confines as they sell data about you.  Blogging is free of the Liking economy, but… Continue reading

    blogging, Uncategorized
  • July 13, 2020

    Piano and Metals

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    sketch method, Uncategorized
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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.

Recent Posts

  • Brett’s Sound Picks: øjeRum’s “I (2026 remaster)”
  • In The Works: 28 April
  • Resonant Thoughts: John Berger’s “Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing” (1960/2025)
  • Stolen Moments Are Open-Ended
  • Opening (Remodel)

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