physical self

October 10, 2014

Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet

1. An article about fade-outs in popular music. “…the fade-out allows a song to live on beyond its physical self; the listener senses that it never truly ends.” 2. A video of a musician using an Elektron Octarack to improvise electronic music. 3. A video about a drummer who imitates machine-made patterns. “People started to program things that Continue reading

Curating The Week

physical self, popular music

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.

physical self

Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff On The Internet