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Ventrilo-Dialogue: A Conversation With brettworks
Thomas: I get to interview you—finally! Why didn’t we think of this sooner? brettworks: I don’t know, but I was right here the whole time! Thomas: So let’s dive in. Readers are curious: What’s the point of your blog and what, if any, are your plans are for it? brettworks: The point of the blog… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Kit Downes’ “Kings”
(This organ music is mobile, regal, and torsioned, like a state of being you’ll aspire to. Does it sound like Olivier Messiaen filtered through Steve Reich—contemplation meeting sped up thoughts, chords refracted in rhythms—showing the travels of musical influence, from them to him to us?) Continue reading
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Searches That Brought You Here: LEGO, Victor Wooten, Stewie Griffin
• LEGO nothing commercial. This search brought you to my post on the music used in a Lego commercial. I wrote: “The music also conjures feeling through that piano sound. For a long time now, the piano has been the ultimate symbol of the middle-class home and of having the financial means, time, and space… Continue reading
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One Good Idea, Then Bail
“I’m taking my time, as if I had all the time in the world. I do have all the time in the world.” – John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook (2011) For a while now—maybe a year? two years?—I’ve been thinking about what I call One Good Idea, Then Bail. In brief, the concept describes a process… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Leadcutter John’s “Resurrection”
(Beginnings can grab you, middles might compel, but sometimes you listen to seven minutes and forty-six seconds of music to arrive at its beguiling final three.) Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: On John Cage’s “Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
“Refuse value judgments” (21). “all technology must move toward way things were before man began changing them: identification with nature in her manner of operation, complete mystery” (25). “Proposal: take facts of art seriously” (32). “There’s a temptation to do nothing simply because there’s so much to do that one doesn’t know where to begin.… Continue reading
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Musical Mind Reading
It’s hard to know what the musicians you’re playing with are thinking. Consider what you have to go on. First and foremost you have the sounds they make. Though some try, musicians can’t ever hide behind their sounds because their sounds reveal them—they give voice to their sound-producing capabilities and limits. Presumably, a musician’s sounds… Continue reading
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