stasis

August 15, 2013

Music Distillation: On Dawn Of Midi’s “Algol”

Stasis as tension, stable fragments as timeline, offbeat becomes on. Read more about music distillations here. Continue reading

music distillation

stasis, tension, timeline

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.

stasis

Music Distillation: On Dawn Of Midi’s “Algol”