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  • March 26, 2025

    Fragments

    “The most interesting and most elusive questions will be the ones whose answers we must give with every moment of our lives, for their whole duration.”– Agnes Callard, Open Socrates, p. 59 “[Play] “is the crucible of invention and a learning system that mimics the genius of evolution.”– Kelly Clancy, Playing With Reality, p. 10 Continue reading

    fragments
  • March 25, 2025

    Tuned 4

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    Uncategorized
  • March 24, 2025

    Tenebrae

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    atelier
  • March 22, 2025

    Sounding The Week: Whatever The Weather, J.S. Bach, Ævestaden, Flying Lotus, Sarah Davachi

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    sounding the week
  • March 21, 2025

    Curating The Week: The Serum Synthesizer, Insight, Being A Media Theorist

    “What you want is some sort of motor memory—sort of like what makes a QUERTY keyboard great is that you know where the W key is without having to look down. So with Serum there’s a bit of that same concept—you want to know where things are without having to analyze too much. I think Continue reading

    Curating The Week
    Creativity, psychology
  • March 19, 2025

    From The Archives: “OV 2” (2023)

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    expressivity, from the archives, voice
  • March 17, 2025

    atelier: marimbafied 13

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    atelier, marimba, piano music
  • March 13, 2025

    Ventrilo-Dialogue: Two A.I.’s Have a Conversation About The Brettworks Database (2025)

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    AI, database, fake conversations, ventrilo-dialogue
  • March 12, 2025

    Database: Aphex Twin On Working Out New Musical Languages And Reconfiguring The Brain

    “I work intuitively. I actually prefer it if I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. If you’ve got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you’re going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don’t know where the notes are, because then you do it Continue reading

    database, intuition
  • March 10, 2025

    Marimbafied 10

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    anti-boredom, atelier
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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.

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