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Step Sequenced
The repeating sequence has a fixed number of steps that return again and again a sixteen beat cycle, one measure of time downbeats—1, 5, 9, 13—on the kick backbeats—3, 7, 11, 15—on the snare offbeats—2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16—on the hats the groove locked tempo steady rhythms measured a repeating sequence… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Jim Copperthwaite’s “The Dancers”
(This would be the moving theme song for an enchanting movie in which everything is not what it seems…) Continue reading
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Flip
Whether you’re a performer or a listener, when you’re involved in music you’re flipping your attention all the time, orienting it from one place to another, focusing on something near or far, just past or maybe about to happen, from the sounds to your emotions and then back to the sounds, in a repeating feedback… Continue reading
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Reluctant Synthesist
Music’s a synthesist connector of modules and patch cords running feelings through waveforms through filters echo-reverbs delays a musical system, a mix, an oscillating life. Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Dominique Lawalree’s “Listen to the Quiet Voice” (c. 1978-1982)
(Musical rigor wrapped in simplicity.) Continue reading
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Letting Go
One of the most important questions any maker of things addresses in their work is How do I know then the work is done? I have worked on projects that were completed in a few minutes, as well as on projects that have stretched over years of on and off tinkering. But no matter how… Continue reading
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