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  • September 14, 2022

    Art About Music: Idris Khan’s “Rhythm Painting 1” (2019)

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    art about music
  • September 13, 2022

    Offering

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  • September 12, 2022

    Error In Music Production

    “…errors cause planes to crash, buildings to collapse, and knowledge to regress. The beneficial properties need to reside in the type of exposure, that is, the payoff function and not in the ‘luck’ part: there needs to be a significant asymmetry between the gains (as they need to be large) and the errors (small or… Continue reading

    enchantment, error
  • September 8, 2022

    Curating The Week: Repetition, A.I.-Generated Art, Getting The Hard Part Right

    • A short film about repetition. • An article about A.I.-generated art. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.” • A blog post about getting the hard part right. “What’s the hard part? What’s the part that has to be right for the rest to matter?” Continue reading

    Curating The Week
  • September 7, 2022

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Pole’s “Grauer Sand” (2022)

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  • September 6, 2022

    Undone

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  • September 5, 2022

    Demo Thinking

    It isn’t hard to begin a new piece of music, because you can begin anywhere and build out from there. But what is hard is the self-imposed pressure to make what you’re working on a polished piece—a piece that sounds finished. I sometimes feel this pressure way too early in the production process and find… Continue reading

    demo thinking
  • September 2, 2022

    Curating The Week: Samplers, Samples, The Creative Paradox

    • A documentary about the Fairlight CMI sampler. “We started just sort of sampling anything we could get our hands on to see how it would sound when it played back at different pitches. I happened to have this record [Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite] on my shelf…and I recorded the first half a second of one… Continue reading

    Curating The Week
  • September 1, 2022

    Virtues

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    virtues
  • August 31, 2022

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Hudson Mohawke’s “Stump” (2022)

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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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