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On Musical Knowing
We have a recurring sense that we don’t know much about music. A sense that we tried to learn a lot, but came up short. A sense that we can’t commit to one musical thing. But we know some musical things, a knowing that lives in experience, which includes the musics we’ve heard and the… Continue reading
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Notes On Anti-Automated Music
“The higher the creativity component of a profession, the more likely it is to have disconnected inputs and outputs.” – Naval Ravikant No one, especially me, wants to listen to automated music—music, acoustic or electronic, that’s on auto-pilot, that just unfolds without responding to its environment or to the subtleties of its own exigencies. (I… Continue reading
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Rain Music
The rain falling outside the window makes a full spectum sound from highs to mids to lows polyphony’s million tiny transients gentle envelopes over rhythmic water drone and now thunder bass this 3D mix is just like music. Continue reading
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Brett’ Sound Picks: Synkro & Arovane’s “Transmission” (2019)
Listen to Brett’s Sound Picks 2019. Continue reading
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Notes On Finding Real Musical Beginnings
It was bothering me how so many of the pieces simply began with a marimba part theme—which really wasn’t a theme, but rather a place where, many months ago, I happened to have begun the music. The marimba themes were placeholders, not real beginnings, and it was bothering me that the pieces began without real… Continue reading
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Flowing Through Music’s Forward Flows
1 Electronic music production is about forward flows. Forward flows means that the musical place where you began is never where you’ll end up. Forwards flows means that whatever you do to the music will cause it to spin headlong into the unknown, away from what it was towards what it might become. The music… Continue reading
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