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  • February 11, 2025

    From The Archives: “exultate” (2022)

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    from the archives
    electronic music
  • February 5, 2025

    On Writing Musics

    Since I’m doing a lot of writing lately, I thought I’d share some of my favorite types of writing musics. Writing doesn’t, of course, need a soundtrack, but I find that the right music occupies whatever part of my brain I don’t need while thinking in words. With this in mind, here are some of… Continue reading

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    bach, baroque-music, classical music, music
  • February 4, 2025

    Atelier: piano solo (cycles remodel)

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  • February 3, 2025

    Resonant Thoughts: Pico Iyer’s “Aflame: Learning from Silence” (2025)

    “The point of being here is not to get anything done; only to see what might be worth doing” (16). “There’s no such thing as dead time when everything is alive with possibility” (24). “It’s never possibility that’s not present; only me” (27). “When one keeps quiet, the situation becomes clear” (62). “Leisure is where… Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
  • January 31, 2025

    By The Waters

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  • January 30, 2025

    On Writing Tools

    • iA Writer. For everyday writing I use iA Writer, an app for Mac OS and iOS. The app is quite expensive, and you need to purchase one version for the phone and another for the computer, but it’s well worth it. iA Writer looks pleasingly minimal and cloud syncs perfectly across devices, so if… Continue reading

    writing tools
    books, scrivener, writing, writing-tips
  • January 28, 2025

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

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    art about music
  • January 27, 2025

    Atelier: piano solo

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    atelier
  • 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

    Resonant Thoughts
    fractals
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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: James Marriott’s “The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society” (2026)
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