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  • August 27, 2025

    From The Archives: Double Drones 7 (9.9.24)

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    accidental epistemologies, drone, from the archives
  • August 22, 2025

    Brett’s Sound Picks: TLF Trio’s “Desire” (2025)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, minimalism
  • August 21, 2025

    Curating The Week: Margaret Boden, Brainstorming With AI, Attention, B-Sections

    • Margaret Boden’s obituary. “Computer science, she went on, helps us ‘to understand what a generative system is, how it’s possible to have a set of rules — which may be a very, very short, briefly statable set of rules — but which has the potential to generate infinitely many different structures.’” • A scholar… Continue reading

    Curating The Week
  • August 19, 2025

    Freeze Studies 9

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    atelier
  • August 18, 2025

    Resonant Thoughts: James Rebanks’s “The Place Of Tides” (2025)

    “Our lives are a series of choices – about what we do, and don’t do. Over time we decide what to let go of, what must die, and what we will fight to keep alive. Sometimes these are big, deliberate decisions, other times change happens in a thousand thoughtless little moments” (91). “There is no… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
    book-review, books, writing
  • August 15, 2025

    100 Bpm Dub

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    groovology, who cares if you listen?
  • August 13, 2025

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Ezekiel Honig’s “Broken Time Can Go In Many Directions” (2025)

    (Around 2002, when I was doing research for my dissertation, I saw Ezekiel Honig perform in a tiny bar on the lower east side. There were probably fifteen people at the set. At the time, performing electronic music using just a laptop and Ableton Live was a novel kind of musicianship. Honig’s music was built… Continue reading

    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • August 11, 2025

    Freeze Studies 12

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    Uncategorized
  • August 8, 2025

    Art As Search

    (Rembrandt, A Scholar in his Study, c. 1640s) In 1998, when Google introduced their proprietary Internet search engine, the definition of the word search shifted. Searching had long been a laborious process of seeking carefully and thoroughly for information and insight on a topic. It took a lot work, usually by an individual with a… Continue reading

    artists, asking questions
    AI, artificial-intelligence, technology
  • August 7, 2025

    Resonant Thoughts: Craig Mod’s “Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir” (2025)

    “Mostly, I remember anti-patterns. Teaching in what-not-to-dos” (29). “Although I’m walking roads, I’m also walking this map representing things beyond what we can see. A layering deeper and weirder than we ever dreamed” (53). “A series of astonishments” (56). “And so each time I walk these routes, these same paths, the conversations come back as… Continue reading

    anti-boredom, Resonant Thoughts
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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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  • Performance Practice: Lessons from Music for 18 Musicians
  • Resonant Thoughts: James Marriott’s “The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society” (2026)
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