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February 25, 2020

Art About Music: Spotify’s Genre Categories (2020)

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February 24, 2020

Untitled

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February 21, 2020

Curating The Week: Essays, Artists, and Cultural Evolution

• A magnificent essay on writing essays. “Telling people something they didn’t know doesn’t always mean surprising them. Sometimes it means telling them something they knew unconsciously but had never put into words. In fact those may be the more valuable insights, because they tend to be more fundamental.” • An essay on artist Anselm Kiefer.… Continue reading

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February 20, 2020

Art About Music: “Portrait Of A Musician Holding Bagpipes” (Netherlands, 1632)

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February 19, 2020

To The Idea

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off the grid, one fell swoop, Uncategorized
February 18, 2020

Optimize

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advertising, affect, attentional arcs, awesomeness, optimization, Uncategorized
February 14, 2020

Plentitudes

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Electronic music, marimba, minimum force, minor epiphanies, Uncategorized
February 13, 2020

Spotified

I wonder how many times the music has been listened to lemme check the stats click to see who’s there oh someone in Mexico and Berlin Los Angeles and London they’re streaming it but why that track what do they like how do they use it and what about the others they’re better than the old stuff… Continue reading

philosophy, Uncategorized
February 12, 2020

Brett’s Sound Picks: Son Zept’s “Arrival” (2020)

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February 11, 2020

Art About Music: Leopold August Abel’s “The Musicians At The Ducal Chapel Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin In 1770” (1770)

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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.