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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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  • 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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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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