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  • June 19, 2023

    Keep Iterating

    (Photo: Adarsh Kummur) “We improved our demos in incremental steps. We evolved our work by slowly converging on better versions of the vision.” Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection, p. 221 “While engaged in tinkering, you incur a lot of small losses, then once in a while you find something rather significant.” Nassim Taleb, Antifragile, p. 236 Continue reading

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  • June 16, 2023

    Traverse Micro

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  • June 15, 2023

    Database: Nathan Fake On Musical Grey

    “I think in the distant future, everything will get more and more grey. Music styles will get more and more mixed and merged.” Nathan Fake database. Continue reading

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  • June 14, 2023

    Art About Music: Gabriel Metsu’s “A Musical Party” (1659)

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  • June 13, 2023

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Nathan Fake’s “CMD” (2023)

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  • June 12, 2023

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  • June 9, 2023

    Art About Music: William H. Johnson’s “Street Musicians” (1939-1940)

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  • June 8, 2023

    Resonant Thoughts: James Hibbard’s “The Art Of Cycling” (2023)

    “Things rarely teach you what you imagine they will but that’s not to say that their lessons are without value. There is no seeing around or over or through. Things merely are.” (193) “The story of modern life is the slow but relentless spread of the all-devouring logic of capitalism. At first, only things were Continue reading

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  • June 7, 2023

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Mandy, Indiana’s “Love Theme (4K VHS)

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  • June 6, 2023

    Voices and Keys

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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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