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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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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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