July 2019
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Lessons From Making Ambient Loops From Ambient Tails
One of the most enjoyable parts of music production is making ambient loops from ambient tails of sounds. I begin doing this several months after a piece is already underway, with its main sounds and parts somewhat set into place. To make an ambient loop, I look for those moments between or just after the… Continue reading
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Friday Freestyle: A Miscellany Of Ten Things I’m Thinking About
• A thoughtful electronic music tutorial by Mr. Bill about sound design. In it, Bill introduces an interesting idea he calls “Idea Jams.” • Something that Gary Vaynerchek said: “I’m obsessed with micro-failures.” • The Tour De France has begun. Not a lot happens in any given stage, but the repetition and the rhythm, the stunning… Continue reading
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The Music Speaks Up
The music keeps reminding you that you don’t know it well enough, that you’re not paying attention to what it needs. You’re not listening. You’re hearing what you hope I should be, rather than what I am. The music is tight but not right, filled out but not filled in, descriptive but not imaginative. Listen… Continue reading
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On Being Musically Authentic
authentic — of undisputed origin; genuine; real; bonafide; legit Every artist aspires to be authentic to how he or she thinks of themselves to be. In an ideal world, we would only make the music/art/literature/sculpture that we want to pursue, whether that’s because it expresses us, it expresses a concept important to us, seems compelling… Continue reading
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Friday Freestyle: A Miscellany Of Ten Things I’m Thinking About
This week I introduce Friday Freestyle: A Miscellany Of Ten Things I’m Thinking About. It’s a new post format in which I share ideas and questions without developing them further into blog posts. It may become a regular thing, or this may be the first and last installment! I really don’t know. • What are… Continue reading
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On Musical Knowing
We have a recurring sense that we don’t know much about music. A sense that we tried to learn a lot, but came up short. A sense that we can’t commit to one musical thing. But we know some musical things, a knowing that lives in experience, which includes the musics we’ve heard and the… Continue reading
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