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  • June 5, 2023

    Yours Alone: Music Production Ergonomics

    (photo: Paul Skorupskas) “If you really want to separate your work from everyone else’s,every time you come to a Y in the road, don’t think about which way to go;automatically take the toughest route. Everybody else is taking the easiest one.” – Richard Serra in Leonard Koren’s What Artists Do (2018) I sometimes wonder, Why I don’t Continue reading

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  • June 2, 2023

    Rhythm Follower

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  • June 1, 2023

    Database: Lorenzo Senni On Build-ups

    “It was just one of the first experiments of how the people could react to […] this like 45, 50 minutes of build-ups taken from trance tracks just looped very precisely that sounds like it’s coming, but it’s always the same loop. After a while you realize that the filter is not opening, the delay Continue reading

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  • May 31, 2023

    Art About Music: Jan de Bray’s “A Violin Player Accompanying Two Young Singers” (1658)

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  • May 30, 2023

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Clark’s “Dolgoch Tape” (2023)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks, taste
  • May 29, 2023

    Templates, No Template

    A workflow adjustment I’ve made in recent months is using a DAW template with most of the instruments I like working with. Prior to doing this, I would begin a piece with a piano sound. I still often begin with piano, but the problem with beginning with only a single (and familiar) sound, I realized, Continue reading

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  • May 26, 2023

    Curating The Week: Blur, Imperfections, The Time Course Of Creativity

    • An article about optical blur (which has me thinking about blurring in music). “There are still artists for whom the purity of optical blur—a tiny depth of field with a single detail picked out, or total lack of focus across the composition—says something important about the limits of perception, or usefully frustrates a viewer’s Continue reading

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  • May 25, 2023

    Database: Grischa Lichtenberger On Steps Of Enhancement

    “I very rarely go back or delete. I add one eq after the other and each one of them is like a step of correction or enhancement of the previous one. Of course it is maybe the worst thing you could do, but it makes the sound more yours, or better: it crystallizes what your Continue reading

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  • May 24, 2023

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Grischa Lichtenberger’s: “1011_11104_v_re_61011s1b” (2023)

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  • May 23, 2023

    SEK 9

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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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