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  • September 24, 2018

    Production Mindsets: Volume

    “Can I have everything louder than everything else?”— Ritchie Blackmore Trying to get just the right volume for every element in the mix is frustrating, because there are so many factors contributing to how we perceive a sound. There is the timbre of the sound, the register it’s playing in, the part it’s playing, as well… Continue reading

    mixing, perception, Production Stories, Uncategorized, volume
  • September 21, 2018

    Being In It: Thoughts Whilst Editing Music To Make It Better

    Let me open up the first piece again. (Double click.) Okay I’ll listen from the top. Oh, I was going to EQ the piano. (Search for EQ, click and drag.) I had a preset I saved. (Piano is playing. Load EQ.) It sounds a little boxy on this piece though. (Move the EQ bump to… Continue reading

    Production Stories, Uncategorized
  • September 20, 2018

    Resonant Thoughts: Nick Papadimitriou’s “Scarp” (2012)

    “This book is…an inquiry undertaken in order to systematically ‘feel out’ the presence of my subject matter as it brushes against the consciousness…I will reconstruct the ghostly voices I hear while walking on Scarp in an attempt to relate my own story to theirs, to locate my own voice and sensations in the ones that… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts, Uncategorized
  • September 19, 2018

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Biosphere’s “Rovertse Heide” (2018)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • September 18, 2018

    Art About Music: Frans Hals’s “The Rommel-Pot Player” (c.1618–1622)

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    art about music, Uncategorized
  • September 17, 2018

    A Way Of Thinking About A Blog

    “What was it that I really wanted? That was when I recognized that my subject was the natural history of the summer night. But there was no such subject, so I stopped.” “Then I quickly remembered the significance of sitting still and waiting, for stories or whatever. Sooner or later everything seems to be part… Continue reading

    blogging, meta-cognition, Uncategorized
  • September 14, 2018

    Resonant Thoughts: Richard James Burgess’s “The History Of Music Production” (2014)

    “What makes random access important, in a creative setting, is being able to grab chunks or tiny fragments of music to copy, paste, cut, fix, tune, move, and modify. Writing a book or even an email is now, almost, unthinkable without being able to move, modify, and fix things. Manipulative power has become integral to… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts, Uncategorized
  • September 13, 2018

    Taking Measure

    It starts with the crosswalk sign the walking guy turns into a flashing hand and the time counting backwards numbers I trace under my breath and sync with my footsteps then I look up and around and notice other measures billboards flickering car horns beeping pedestrian counterpoint the fading light felt as clock counting subdividing… Continue reading

    poetry, pulseology, time, timelines, Uncategorized
  • September 12, 2018

    Brett’s Sound Picks: The Necks’s “Body” (2018)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • September 11, 2018

    Art About Music: Girolamo Savoldo’s “Shepherd with a Flute” (c. 1525)

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    art about music, 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.

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