If you make beats you work with timing on an infinitesimal scale. The timing or groove of a beat is as important as its rhythm patterns because timing conveys subtle, almost subliminal information about musicianship, directionality, intensity, and mood. Nuances of where a beat’s components hit in time–in relation to one another and in relation Continue reading

Although producing music is generally an iterative process in which you return to tracks begun yesterday, last week, or last year with an ear to gradually improving them, ideally it’s an all-at-once process that leverages time running out. In One Session is the principle of maximizing what you can improvise, record, edit, and arrange in Continue reading

(Photo: Marianne Bos) “Transition” notes Ernő Rubik, “is the very heart of inspiration and creativity”, and compelling music is always in transition on every level of its unfolding. Like a kaleidoscope in motion, music is a continuous becoming from one state to another—waveforms vibrating, chords progressing, melodies inventing, timbre-textures morphing, beats repeating, and arrangements growing—a Continue reading