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  • March 16, 2020

    Art About Music: Eventide’s “Omnipressor” (1974)

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    art about music, Uncategorized, vintage music technology
  • March 11, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: GoGo Penguin’s “Atomised” (2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • March 10, 2020

    Art About Music: Victor Eeckhout’s “The Musicians Of Tangiers” (1856–1879)

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    art about music, Uncategorized
  • March 9, 2020

    Sky Variations (March 2020)

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    silent music, Uncategorized
  • March 6, 2020

    Influence And Style Traces: Moondog’s “Pacific Ocean (Rain Forest) (no date) and Steve Reich’s “Nagoya Marimbas” (1994)

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    borrowed thoughts, canons, chance, change and transformation, conceptual keys, counterpoint, ecstasy of influence, feedback loops, influence traces, marimba, Uncategorized
  • March 5, 2020

    Aphorism Triptych

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    aphorism triptych, Uncategorized
  • March 4, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Quirke’s “Decohere” (2019)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • March 3, 2020

    Art About Music: Steinberg’s Cubase “Key Edit Window” (1989)

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    art about music, Uncategorized
  • March 2, 2020

    Air Drumming

      “When you are attempting to learn implicit knowledge that by definition you don’t understand, it is important to have a bunch of examples in front of you to feed your brain’s pattern recognition system.” – autotranslucence.wordpress.com 1983. I’m drumming along to music. The headphones are attached to a small boombox playing the latest Rush… Continue reading

    drumming, Uncategorized
  • February 26, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Steve Hauschildt’s “M Path” (2018)

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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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