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Database: Aphex Twin On Composing
“But the actual composing, you don’t want to be thinking for that. You need to think to set things up then you want to channel whatever it is from wherever it’s coming from. If you can concentrate long enough and you get to the right place then hopefully you’ve stopped thinking completely.” – Apex Twin… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Benedicte Maurseth’s “Heilo” (2022)
(One of my top listens of the year–even the birds at 4:29 are in key…) 2022 playlist Continue reading
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On The Musically Untried
The more musical things I try, the more I realize I may not be trying as much new stuff as I could be. The very workflow habits that get me results also keep me in ruts of my own making and returning to my go-to strategies and techniques keeps me from new ways of doing… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Peter Zumthor’s Atmospheres (2003)
“We perceive atmosphere through our emotional sensibility—a form of perception that works incredibly quickly, and which we humans evidently need to help us survive. Not every situation grants us time to make up our minds on whether or not we like something or whether indeed we might be better heading off in the opposite direction.… Continue reading
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Once You’ve Found The Middle Ground Twiddle With Its Sides
One way to think about music production is that it’s an intensive generation of a track’s middle ground followed by twiddling with this middle in search of variations and details to fill out the sides. I’ve written about how I begin pieces with chords, but any sound will do. It doesn’t matter where you begin, but it… Continue reading
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