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  • November 19, 2020

    Corda 1

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    sketch, Uncategorized
  • November 18, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Biosphere’s “Angel’s Flight” (2020)

    (Biosphere is a master at knowing how much less is more. There are only two sounds in this piece, but that is enough for the energy to maintain itself.) Brett’s Sound Picks 2020. Continue reading

    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • November 17, 2020

    Art About Music: “A Musical Gathering – Ottoman” (18th century)

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    art about music, musical instruments
  • November 16, 2020

    Cycles 3

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    sketch
  • November 13, 2020

    P&B 9.18

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    beats per minute, radical transparency, sketch, Small Thoughts
  • November 12, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Zeynep Tufekci On Attention

    “We lived in a world in which mass attention was mediated through the mass media, was necessarily public and not largely uniform. Everyone saw the same thing on the same media. Now we live in a world mediated by a few giant understaffed companies, individualized based on data collected on the individual user and not… Continue reading

    attention, Resonant Thoughts
  • November 10, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Anton Bruckner’s “Os justi” (1879/2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, mode, resonance, voice
  • November 9, 2020

    100 bpm 11.8

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    four-on-the-floor, frames of attention, Uncategorized
  • November 5, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Shane Benzie’s “The Lost Art of Running”

    “I was starting to realize something: the best way to create a body that moves beautifully is to move beautifully over and over again. I realized that what we needed to do was change the default. To restore factory settings so that, as the runners’ fascial system rearchitected itself, it did so in a way… Continue reading

    movement
  • November 4, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Autechre’s “X4” (2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
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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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