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  • June 14, 2022

    Ponder

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    voice, who cares if you listen?
  • June 13, 2022

    Art About Music: “Saxophonist Playing Along To ‘Careless Whisper’ Each Night” (2022)

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  • June 10, 2022

    Slow Turn

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  • June 6, 2022

    Cadences II

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  • June 5, 2022

    Resonant Thoughts: Harold Budd On New Age Music

    “Well I’ll tell you very frankly that this whole ‘new age’ business is very distasteful to me. I don’t like being even considered in that category and I have almost no respect for it at all. To me it’s a kind of arrogant philosophical point of view where music has a metaphysical or biological function. Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
  • June 3, 2022

    Dub 166 bpm

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    sketch
  • June 2, 2022

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Low Altitude’s “Into The Blue” (2022)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • June 1, 2022

    Art About Music: Gerard van Honthorst’s “The Concert” (1623)

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  • May 31, 2022

    Creative Edges

    We speak metaphorically of edges when we wish to describe the most forward-located point in technological, scientific, or artistic development. We say, that’s cutting edge computer software, or her work is on the leading edge of contemporary music. To be at the cutting or leading edge is to be at that point where the trajectories Continue reading

    creative edges
  • May 27, 2022

    Resonant Thoughts: John T. Lysaker’s “Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music For Airports (The OxFord Keynotes Series)(2018)

    “Taking his bearings from cybernetics, Eno works through interventions rather than utterly spontaneous creations. The variety he finds through systems music came from the system, after all. And therein lies the key–one takes steps to outwit oneself, whether with an oblique strategy or a pattern (or system) with which to generate sounds. That is, one Continue reading

    Resonant Thoughts
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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

  • Curating The Week: The Act Of Making, A Music Production Manifesto, Attention
  • Database: Dave Stewart On Stereo Picture, Frequency Differences, And Demos
  • Brett’s Sound Picks: Musicentrydelete’s “Depth” (2025)
  • When Less Leads To More
  • Omni 98 bpm

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