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  • October 5, 2022

    Art About Music: Claude Tousignant’s “Gong 72” (1966)

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  • October 4, 2022

    HT Dub 9

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    dub-ish
  • October 3, 2022

    Energies In Music

    When a music affects me strongly, I’ll listen to it over and over–because it’s fun but also to give myself time to think about what’s responsible for the music’s emotional impact. One way to think about this impact is in terms of different kinds of musical energies. Yes, we could just as easily use the terms… Continue reading

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  • September 30, 2022

    Curating The Week: Brown noise and the Brain, Cooking and the Senses, Beauty

    • An article about the cognitive effects of brown noise. “No research suggests a specific kind of noise is the key [for focus or sleep]. Frequencies can activate and stimulate the brain in different ways.” • An article about cooking and the senses. “A single recipe is never the one true version of a dish,… Continue reading

    Curating The Week
  • September 29, 2022

    Brett’s Sound Picks: Clark’s “Sparrow Arc Tall” (2022)

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    Brett’s Sound Picks
  • September 28, 2022

    Art About Music: Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes (1992)

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    art about music
  • September 27, 2022

    Corda Etude 2

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    etude
  • September 26, 2022

    A Sequence That Never Repeats Artificially

    When I record a sequence I always aim to play it though, without stopping, from a beginning to an end. There are easier ways to build a sequence. The easiest way is to record a few notes or a few measures and then copy them so that the sequence repeats as a self-contained block of… Continue reading

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  • September 23, 2022

    Study July 26

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  • September 22, 2022

    Brett’s Sound Picks: James Heather’s “Meant To be” (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.

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