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  • March 5, 2020

    Aphorism Triptych

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  • March 4, 2020

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

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  • March 3, 2020

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

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  • 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

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  • February 26, 2020

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

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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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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

  • Drumming Diaries: Energies of Performance
  • 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

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