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  • September 11, 2017

    Organ and Crotales Music

    Download at iTunes, bandcamp, cdbaby. Stream it on Spotify.     Continue reading

    Uncategorized
  • September 8, 2017

    Curating The Week: Creative Work, Style And Monoculture, Ambient Church Music

    • An article about creative work. “Resist the urge to judge your art prematurely, or to abandon it altogether. Just welcome what comes, and let it be that simple.” • An article about style and monoculture. “Since the early 1990s, Eijkelboom has surreptitiously photographed pedestrians in urban settings, for no longer than two hours in… Continue reading

    Curating The Week, Uncategorized
  • September 7, 2017

    Freestyle: A Brief Telephone Conversation About Music

    Hey what’s up? Nothing. You? I’m working. Oh ya? Ya. • What—Is it some new music? Yeah, but you interrupted it. (laughs) I was right in the middle of something and I had to stop recording. • Where are you? Driving. Okay. • You’re happy as a clam when you’re in that little world, eh?… Continue reading

    freestyle, telephony, Uncategorized
  • September 6, 2017

    Art About Music: Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts” (1952) (1960)

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    art about music, comics, Uncategorized
  • September 5, 2017

    Meta-Reflection: Talking About Creativity And The Value Of Performance

    “Craft is what enables you to be successful when you’re not inspired.” – Brian Eno As a research flâneur, one of my favorite meta-subjects is the nature of the creative process and the question of how new and original ideas arise. Over the course of reading about music I’ve wandered into some compelling efforts to… Continue reading

    Creativity, groovology, meta-reflection, performance, Uncategorized
  • August 31, 2017

    4 Chords, 9 Photos (2017)

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    clouds, sound art
  • August 30, 2017

    Art About Music: Jacob Lawrence’s “Bootleg Whiskey” (1943) And “The Lovers” (1946)

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    art about music, radio, record players, Uncategorized
  • August 29, 2017

    Curating The Week: How To Read A Poem, Music Software Skeuomorphism, Kelly Moran

    • An article on how to read a poem (or: how to listen to music?). “When we release ourselves from the need to boil the poem down to a single meaning or theme, the mind can move in a dreamlike, associative way. This associative movement in poetry can at first feel disorienting, but it is… Continue reading

    Curating The Week, Uncategorized
  • August 25, 2017

    Unknowing

    It sounds new age (it’s not) instead of an exceptional technique, gifts of novice: that first time when you don’t know what you’re doing so head first you dive into its rhythm (a bypassing move) swift and sure trusting form is sound context becomes clear means generate ends because this first time practice beats theory… Continue reading

    poetry, Uncategorized, unknowing
  • August 24, 2017

    Resonant Thoughts: Michael Robbins’ “Equipment For Living”

    “I used to try to listen my way under my skin, but it turned out that listening was my skin. Listening to records was not just something I did, it was who I was. Not a day passed, for years, that I didn’t spend hours sitting in front of my stereo or burrowing into my… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts, 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.

Recent Posts

  • Art About Music: “When Is That Young Man Going Home?” (1931)
  • Curating The Week: Freedom, Exceptionalism, Finishing
  • Curating The Archive: Of Slow Voices (5.2.2022)
  • Database: Laura Cannell On The Mechanics Of Acoustic Instruments, Improvising, And Simple Motifs
  • Omni 128 bpm

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