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  • March 23, 2020

    Notes On Unknowns And Conditions For Musical Flourishing 

    unknown—unrevealed, uncertain, unsettled, undecided “I’ve come to think that attention is the most important thing in a studio situation.” – Brian Eno Sometime last year I was listening to an almost finished track and heard a sound I couldn’t recall making, a sound I couldn’t figure out in retrospect how it came about. Some quality… Continue reading

    composing, music production, Uncategorized
  • March 20, 2020

    Curating The Week: Live Music, Programming As Magic, And Perception Of The Present

    • An article about the stoppage of live music. “A concert also presents an increasingly rare opportunity to focus attention on a unique event as it unfolds in real time. There’s a chance to let an extended, unpredictable arc of sound, light and information envelop me, with no capability to pause or rewind, no temptation… Continue reading

    Curating The Week, Uncategorized
  • March 19, 2020

    Notes On Music Production In Quarantine

    Recently, with more time at home, I’ve been thinking through and working on different ways of making music. My usual approach is to improvise my way into something interesting. This always involves playing the keyboard, using a sound that I believe in, and trying to figure out some kind of structure and flow for that… Continue reading

    Creativity, music production, musical systems, Uncategorized, workflow
  • March 18, 2020

    Resonant Thoughts: Jean-Michel Jarre On “Oxygène”

    “When I started to do electronic music I was obsessed — I more or less forgot that obsession along the way — about not having anything being repeated in exactly the same way. For me it was exactly the opposite attitude to that of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and all those electronic bands who were doing… Continue reading

    Electronic music, repetition, Resonant Thoughts, style, Uncategorized
  • March 17, 2020

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Benoit Pioulard’s “Mesa” (2020)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • 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)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich   Continue reading

    borrowed thoughts, canons, chance, change and transformation, conceptual keys, counterpoint, ecstasy of influence, feedback loops, influence traces, marimba, 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

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  • Stolen Moments Are Open-Ended

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