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  • January 28, 2025

    Art About Music: “Music Loses Its Format” (2025)

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  • January 27, 2025

    Atelier: piano solo

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  • January 24, 2025

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Astrid Sonne’s “Light and heavy (HVAD EDIT)” (2025)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • January 23, 2025

    Resonant Thoughts: Kathy Willis’s “Good Nature” (2024)

    “Our eyes also appear to seek out patterns with a mid-level of fractal complexity .22 Why is this significant? Because evidence suggests that when we view silhouette outlines of natural scenes with this fractal dimension, it triggers greater levels of calming and attention restoration than when we look at the outline shape of other landscape Continue reading

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    fractals
  • January 22, 2025

    Database: Plaid On Mistakes Leading To Originality

    “Often the originality is in the mistakes. You might try and make a drum and bass track but don’t have the skills so it turns out a bit weird..but that kind of weird is something new…something stranger and more exciting might come out it.” Andy Turner (aka Plaid) Continue reading

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  • January 21, 2025

    Atelier: Current Studies #13

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  • January 16, 2025

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Julius Asal Plays Debussy, “Preludes, Book 1, CD 125: VI. Des pas sur la neige” (2024)

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  • January 14, 2025

    Atelier: Current Studies #15

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    atelier, pulseology
  • January 10, 2025

    Musical Genealogies: Aphex Twin’s “#3” (1994-2024)

    Released in 1994, Richard James/Aphex Twin’s “#3”, sometimes referred to as “Rhubarb”, is a beautiful, almost disinterested piece of music. Anchored by a five-chord pad sequence, the track runs seven minutes thanks to repetition, a modular structure, and some beguiling Aphexian details. The structure is broadly in seven parts. It begins with the main chords, Continue reading

    musical genealogies, versioning
    music, reviews
  • January 8, 2025

    Database: Guy Brewer On Constraints To Define Your Sound

    “As much as I’m all for people letting go while writing and just letting the process take them forward, I also think there’s a certain amount of thought that should go into deciding who you want to be, what you want to represent. I choose bits of equipment for each track because I know they Continue reading

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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.

Recent Posts

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  • Resonant Thoughts: Molly Bang’s “Picture This” (1991/2016)

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