{"id":118,"date":"2026-06-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/?p=118"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:44:48","slug":"tanaka-brenton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/tanaka-brenton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanaka Brenton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve made over a thousand beats. Started in 2011. And I still can&#8217;t fully explain what happens in the moment a track stops being just a track.<br>It&#8217;s not technique. I know technique. It&#8217;s something that arrives or it doesn&#8217;t. You feel it before you can name it. The arrangement settles in a way that feels less like a decision and more like a recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>I built a whole framework trying to hold it. Trilingual. Theological. Cinematic. It works but only around the edges. The centre of the thing still won&#8217;t sit still long enough to be explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The gap between craft and that other thing, that&#8217;s what I keep circling. Discipline gets me to the room. But something else determines what happens inside it.<br>Thirteen years in. I still can&#8217;t teach that part. So I just keep creating the conditions and showing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kwadoka\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vD4nklhO0J4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>TannyTeeY, Kwadoka, 2022. Music production and composition. Produced by Blastfemi and TannyTeeY Music. Published by Tanaka Brenton Music and Oluwafemi Onafowokan. Composed by Oluwafemi Onafowokan and Tanaka Brenton.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made over a thousand beats. Started in 2011. And I still can&#8217;t fully explain what happens in the moment a track stops being just a track.It&#8217;s not technique. I know technique. It&#8217;s something that arrives or it doesn&#8217;t. You feel it before you can name it. The arrangement settles in a way that feels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/tanaka-brenton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tanaka Brenton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provocation","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}