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  • April 9, 2024

    Wavetable Dub 2

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  • April 8, 2024

    Gesture Lessons

    (Dioskourides of Samos, 1st century BC) “In cuisine, in music, in sculpture, in painting, it’s everything. Either we like the gesture, either we like the hand, or we don’t. Me, I love it. It might be the sense I like the most. Maybe even more than the sense of taste. And this hand…if we want Continue reading

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  • April 5, 2024

    K+M 1 (Version)

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  • April 4, 2024

    Resonant Thoughts: Dennis Yi Tenen’s “Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write” (2024)

    “The hand carries the load of value through lived experience. And experience cannot be automated.” “Few artists like to admit to painting by the numbers. Nobody wants to seem ordinary. The occasional visibility of artifice—portable, explainable, documented, transferable, automated—therefore tends to startle or repulse audiences acculturated into the privilege of exceptional human genius.” “The hypothesis Continue reading

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  • April 3, 2024

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Lanark Artefax’s “Metallur” (2024)

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  • April 2, 2024

    Keywords: Soundset

    Your soundset is a bespoke palette of sounds, toolkit of filigreed production possibilities, collection of go-to enchanting instruments and timbres, and repertoire of effects and signal processing ways, balanced just so. Having a soundset solves the problems of what template to use and how to begin, freeing your attention from which sounds to what shall Continue reading

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  • April 1, 2024

    Music Box No. 14

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  • March 31, 2024

    Running As Flow Practice

    “The run is white noise, a way to simply experience time as a body, a piston, that exists away from the mind and only in the body as a live reactive presence.” Matthew Futterman, Running to the Edge (2019) At home I move fast and bump into things. Shins knock the couch, flying elbows glance Continue reading

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  • March 29, 2024

    Art About Music: Athanasius Kircher’s Hydraulic Organ, from “The Universal Musical Art, of the Great Art of Consonance and Dissonance” (1650)

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  • March 28, 2024

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Ævestaden’s “Motorbåt” (2023)

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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.

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