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  • November 23, 2022

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Kizuna” (2022)

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  • November 22, 2022

    FA 5 piano

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  • November 21, 2022

    Notes On Musical Remixes, Reimaginings, Afters, Recomposeds, Remodels, And Alternative Versions

    “Music is so tied up in ideas, concepts, and the sonic properties of equipment, that it might often be more correct to talk about something’s continuing life cycle than it is to call it X’s remix of Y by Z.” – Jennifer Lucy Allan, Wire (2012) “Basically, a remixer/producer is taking your ideas and glorifying… Continue reading

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  • November 18, 2022

    Art About Music: Lawren Harris’s “Nature Rhythms” (1950)

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  • November 17, 2022

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Dienne’s “Contacto” (2022)

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  • November 16, 2022

    Resonant Thoughts: Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist As A Vocation” (2022)

    “The key component is not the quality of the materials—what’s needed is magic. If that magic is present, the most basic daily matters and the plainest language can be turned into a device of surprising sophistication. Their only recourse is to throw open their garage doors, drag out whatever they have stored away to that… Continue reading

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  • November 15, 2022

    Admirabilis

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  • November 14, 2022

    Recursive Music Production

    No matter how elaborate a musical system a producer works with, no matter how much or how little gear one uses, the most foolproof technique for creating sounds, parts, and structures is one that incorporates recursion. Recursion is the process of repeating items in a self-similar way. In the natural world, recursive structures are found in… Continue reading

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  • November 12, 2022

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Arovane & Taylor Deupree’s “Sill_Lili” (2022)

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  • November 11, 2022

    Three Lines

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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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