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Pre-Emptive Shh: On The Power Of Muting
“It’s what you don’t hear, more than what you hear, that makes something clear. It’s the absence of junk.” – Steve Duda In music production, I’m often busied with everything I can hear, rather than everything I can’t hear. I get carried away—in mostly productive ways—with the details of what’s sounding in the mix: Is… Continue reading
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A Mix
A mix talks with the music, asking it how it wants to be heard. A mix dances with the music, leading it around the stereo dance floor. A mix emphasizes the important sounds right now. A mix exaggerates, boosting tiny into huge, compressing loud into soft. A mix generates ambiance. A mix balances multiple sounds,… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jenny Odell’s “How To Do Nothing” (2019)
“[David] Hockney valued painting because of the medium’s relationship to time. According to him, an image contained the amount of time that went into making it, so that when someone looked at one of his paintings, they began to inhabit the physical, bodily time of its being painted.” -Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing (2019). Continue reading
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Sound Feels
Every sound has its own feel. This feel is primarily a function of the sound’s timbre, but it’s also shaped by the volume of the sound, and the energy of the person making it. Musical instruments are distinguished by their timbre profiles or what is sometimes called their “sound color” or “tone color.” Timbre is… Continue reading
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Country Music
There’s a cricket outside the window singing whole notes in four four one twenty bpm leaving space for wind’s rustle and an occasional car at five am silence autumn music from afar. Continue reading
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Secret Music
Most of the music I enjoy on a weekly basis I share on my Brett’s Sound Picks Spotify playlist. Since this music is new, only time will tell how it ages and whether it will be interesting to listen to a few years or more down the line. But once in a while a recording comes… Continue reading
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