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Brandon Smith

Learning/Personal Reflection

Living burnout in retrospect

Composer Brandon K. Smith tracks his experience with burnout through music school into the professional world

May 16, 2023
Ethics/Personal Reflection

This essay is not perfect: Confessions of a lapsed perfectionist

In this essay, composer Brandon K. Smith reflects on perfection(ism) through the lens of his own experience and begins to parse the ways in which it is harmful to practitioners of Western art music.

March 24, 2022
Diversity/Academic-ish

Race, identity, and music: How artists of color reconcile imposter syndrome in an ever-changing industry

Composer Brandon K. Smith traces representation of black artists in music genres throughout American history and its continued relevance today for POC identity.

November 24, 2021

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    Winter 2024: Media mélange
  • Ian Nutting

    “It already has”: Speed Racer and impossible hope
  • Noël Wan

    ChatGPT & me
  • Mona Sangesland

    Mapping the Nueva Canción Chilena
  • Andrew Bethke

    Vulgar academia: Why knowledge production needs a class war
  • Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena

    Passing the mic from white middle-aged spiritual liberation to post-college travel utopia
  • Brandon Smith

    Living burnout in retrospect
  • Vijay Rajan

    Decolonizing myself, The Jungle Book, and Rudy, too

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