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  • September 25, 2023

    C.A. Sept

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  • September 21, 2023

    Keywords: Ambience

    Ambience is bonus resonance, a reverb that softens sound’s blow. To add ambience is to place a sound in a space whose dimensions and materials color how we hear. Tones now dissolve at their edges, like candle wax around the flame. Quick sounds get hang time, long sounds linger, beginnings and ends become one. Ambience Continue reading

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  • September 20, 2023

    Brett’s Sound Picks: KMRU’s “Matching Teal Surfaces” (2023

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  • September 19, 2023

    Database: KMRU On Sound Banks Of Stories

    “I use Ableton Push to arrange, structure and build upon the field recordings, layering them with new sounds to create different environments and soundscapes. Then I’ll use Ableton Live to sort out the recordings I did that day and make decisions on whether I need to edit, mix or cut sounds to create new recording Continue reading

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  • September 18, 2023

    SEK 4

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  • September 15, 2023

    Undone

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  • September 14, 2023

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Colleen’s “Night looping – Movement I” (2023)

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  • September 13, 2023

    Running As Psychogeography

    Passing through a residential neighborhood in Queens about a mile and a half from where I live there’s a long road, 21st Avenue, with a series of hills that I look forward to running on most days. The road’s total length is maybe a mile and a half, but feels like an adventure to train Continue reading

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  • September 12, 2023

    Database: Actress On Sound Discovery

    “The actual aesthetic of insane digital sound processing is not really where I’m coming from, I’m much more interested in textures and how sounds which probably shouldn’t work together are able to bend and cooperate. How sounds, once you’ve built some rudimentary programming blocks, just get let go and form the genesis of how ideas Continue reading

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  • September 11, 2023

    Musicians Are Like Magicians

    “Music falls on the silence like a sense,A passion that we feel, not understand.” – Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” Musicians are like magicians,they conjure tricks in sound,like a rabbit from the hator notes behind the ear. Musicians are like magicians,they redirect our attentionwith gesturing hands,striking and strumming,chords become colors. Musicians are like Continue reading

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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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