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  • July 8, 2024

    FourFours

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    fragments, from l’atelier
  • July 6, 2024

    Boundless

    Keys And Marimbas (Cycles Versions) Continue reading

    marimba
  • July 5, 2024

    Keys and Marimbas (Cycles Versions)

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    Uncategorized
  • July 3, 2024

    Art About Music: Aphex Twin’s “Vordhosbn” (2001/2017)

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    art about music
  • July 2, 2024

    Resonant Thoughts: Richard W. Hamming’s ” The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn” (1997)

    “How are you to recognize ‘fundamentals’? One test is they have lasted a long time. Another test is from the fundamentals all the rest of the field can be derived by using the standard methods in the field” (p.9). “Creativity seems, among other things, to be ‘usefully’ putting together things which were not perceived to… Continue reading

    creative epistemologies, Resonant Thoughts
  • July 1, 2024

    Keywords: Work Fast, Work Slow

    To enrich our music production we can work at two distinct paces: fast and slow. The initial moment of making is quick and intuitive as we run with what catches our attention—noticing a sound, improvising a part, tweaking a patch, drumming a loop, trying out an idea and recording it, capturing an evocative musical gesture.… Continue reading

    keywords
  • June 28, 2024

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Leon Weber’s “Six Pianos (Rework Section II)” (2024)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • June 27, 2024

    Curating The Week: Charles Taylor’s Interspace, Walking And Creativity, Method Creates Flavor

    “The arts are not subsidiary places of secondary sensations but the primary place where we go to recall feelings of wholeness, of harmony not just with ‘Nature’—the craggy peaks the Romantics loved and the Italian lakes they lingered by—but with existence itself. Poetry and music do this by escaping the constraints of intellect, by going… Continue reading

    Curating The Week
  • June 26, 2024

    Running And Thinking

    “The deeper you look, the less likely you are to find a moment of sudden breakthrough, rather than a series of small incremental steps.” Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works No matter how a run is going, it always does something good for your mind. You might be struggling in the swelter of a summer’s morning… Continue reading

    mindware, running
    mindfulness, running
  • June 25, 2024

    Art About Music: Extreme EQ (2024)

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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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