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  • May 25, 2018

    Resonant Thoughts: Grant Snider’s “The Shape Of Ideas (2017)

    “Minimalism is simple. Got rid of the unnecessary. Create structure. Stop searching for hidden meaning. Embrace what is solid. Lose yourself in patterns. Don’t fear empty space. Stay clean. Be bold and colorful. Don’t be too expressive! Less is more. But less is more difficult than it looks.” -Grant Snider, The Shape Of Ideas, p. 55. Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts, Uncategorized
  • May 24, 2018

    Ways Of Listening

    Listen so quietly that music’s voice whispers listen so intensely that music’s style dissolves listen so quickly that music’s motives unravel listen so openmindedly that music’s aims multiply listen so nonchalantly that music’s sounds wander listen so hopefully that music’s solution sings. Continue reading

    poetry, Uncategorized
  • May 23, 2018

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Tomaga’s “Il Fiume Di Ferro” (2017)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • May 22, 2018

    Art About Music: Ambogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory Of Good Government” (c. 1138-1340)

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  • May 21, 2018

    Assessing Creative Strategies For Music Production

    “What is the most important thing we can think about in this most extraordinary moment?” -Buckminster Fuller When I’m making progress on a project I take a moment to note what I’ve been doing to move things along. On my most recent music recording, I found that I had worked in distinct stages and that… Continue reading

    creative strategies, music production, Uncategorized
  • May 18, 2018

    Resonant Thoughts: Carlo Rovelli’s “The Order Of Time” (2018)

    “What we call ‘time’ is a complex collection of structures, of layers” (4). “There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them” (16). “Time passes more slowly for the one who keeps moving” (38). “Time is the measurement of change” (63). “Time is nothing but the registering of movement” (64). “We… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts, time, Uncategorized
  • May 17, 2018

    Inputs and Output / Outputs and Input

    How do your ideas come to be— from a single source that branches into many outputs or from many inputs that funnel into a single output? How do your thoughts move— from 12 to 1 or 1 to 12 from multitudes or a solo? Is your knowing like a tangle of wires or one plug… Continue reading

    poetry, Uncategorized
  • May 16, 2018

    Brett Sound Pick’s: Justin Walter’s “1001” (2017)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, Uncategorized
  • May 15, 2018

    Art About Music: Paolo Veronese’s “Muse With Tambourine” (1561)

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    art about music, Uncategorized
  • May 14, 2018

    Music’s Invisibles

      Often when we think about music, we’re thinking about its visibles: the people making it (how they look and self identify, their gender, how they play), the instruments they play (acoustic or electronic? traditional or new? homemade or mass-produced?), and the contexts in which they perform (formal concert hall or the street? the recording… Continue reading

    invisibles, music discourse, musical signification, musical sociality, 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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