Thomas Brett
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Database: Sub Focus On Drones
“This tends to be something I start with a lot: I make drones in the key of the song that I’m working in. The way I normally do them is that I record a long pass of me playing an instrument. There’s one I made from a bleepy square wave patch in Serum which is… Continue reading
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A.I. In Music: Notes On patten’s “Mirage FM”
I recently listened to Mirage FM, a recording by English musician and visual artist patten (Damian Roach) made using sounds from Riffusion. Riffusion is a website that generates audio based on user prompts, adapting Stable Diffusion‘s text-to-image generator to reconstruct music from a database of spectrograms. (Spectrograms are two-dimentional representations of audio’s frequency, amplitude, and… Continue reading
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Book Review
My book, The Creative Electronic Music Producer, was generously reviewed by Hugh Robjohns in Sound On Sound. You can read the review here. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: wt Robina’s “Technical Manifesto For The Deviant Sound Engineer” (2021)
“Sound is a complex, immaterial phenomenon. It is not what it seems. […] “Sound is the impression of a thing (an object) which happens to exist independently from it; it’s free from the presence of the object that is perceived as its cause. Sound is a by-product of almost any action, though it is neither… Continue reading
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Keep Iterating
(Photo: Adarsh Kummur) “We improved our demos in incremental steps. We evolved our work by slowly converging on better versions of the vision.” Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection, p. 221 “While engaged in tinkering, you incur a lot of small losses, then once in a while you find something rather significant.” Nassim Taleb, Antifragile, p. 236… Continue reading
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Database: Nathan Fake On Musical Grey
“I think in the distant future, everything will get more and more grey. Music styles will get more and more mixed and merged.” Nathan Fake database. Continue reading
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