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  • May 9, 2023

    DB 1

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  • May 8, 2023

    On Theory, Practice, And Progress

    “Techniques and processes are developed that work, but the understanding of them comes later.” – Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works Because every session unfolds differently, there’s no typical producing music day. Some days you’re determined to begin something new, other days you revisit a piece from a few weeks ago, curious to hear if it… Continue reading

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  • May 5, 2023

    Curating The Week: Jaron Lanier On A.I., Re-Listening, Bagpipe Cover Songs

    • Essential reading on A.I. by Jaron Lanier. “The new programs mash up work done by human minds. What’s innovative is that the mashup process has become guided and constrained, so that the results are usable and often striking. This is a significant achievement and worth celebrating—but it can be thought of as illuminating previously… Continue reading

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  • May 4, 2023

    Database: The Field On Listening For A Long Time

    “There aren’t necessarily things happening in my music all the time, and it’s always interesting to hear how people experience it in a totally different way from me. I created it, but they can hear something totally different. Maybe it’s just out of boredom that the brain can make a loop exciting.” “If you sit… Continue reading

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  • May 3, 2023

    Brett’s Sound Picks: The Field’s “Alter – The Field Remix” (2023)

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  • May 2, 2023

    Tuned

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  • May 1, 2023

    ‘In The Style Of’: Perspectives On Creativity From AI-Based Text, Image, and Music Generators

    “Innovation, like evolution, is a process of constantly discovering ways of rearranging the world into forms that are unlikely to arise by chance—and that happen to be useful.” Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works “The higher the creativity component of a profession, the more likely it is to have disconnected inputs and outputs.” Naval Ravikant In… Continue reading

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  • April 28, 2023

    Presence In Absence

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  • April 27, 2023

    Database: Laurel Halo On Keeping Your Own Sound At The Core

    “For me it usually starts off with either coming up with a chord progression I haven’t quite heard before, a beat I haven’t heard before, a new type of sample. I’m always just trying out new things – Hour Logic is quite different from King Felix, which is quite different from the things I’ve done… Continue reading

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  • April 26, 2023

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Neil Cowley’s “Cord” (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.

Recent Posts

  • Art About Music: Google’s Lyria 3 (2026)
  • Studio Observations: Listening To Improvisation
  • Database: Shane Parish on Revoicing and the Game Of Subtraction
  • Jup-8000, No. 1
  • Curating The Week: Blogging, Music and Truth-Telling, Memory

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