Thomas Brett
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Database: Robin Guthrie On Using Effects Pedals To Create One’s Own Sound
“I found with a couple of the right pedals I could go anywhere and sound like me, which has more to do with limited playing skills and the chords that I make than anything else. It evolved from my frustration with being a really fucking mediocre guitar player when I was learning to play. A… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World” (2011)
“…in reality the future is unlike the past, the unseen very different from the seen. Science often predicts – and brings about – phenomena spectacularly different from anything that has been experienced before” (6). “Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity” (7). “We never know any data before interpreting it through theories.… Continue reading
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Principles of Electronic Music Production
Summary Over ten chapters richly illustrated with the practices and ideas of innovative musicians past and present, across a range of styles, Principles of Electronic Music Production is a companion book to The Creative Electronic Music Producer that looks at the producer as an omnimusical figure―a composer-performer-engineer who improvises, designs sounds, programs MIDI, sculpts audio,… Continue reading
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Database: Steve Hauschildt On Starting From A Harmonic Point
“Most of the time, the bedrock of a track is created through chord structures, so I’m starting from a harmonic point rather than a sequence or arpeggio. Once I have that harmonic foundation, I’ll use some sort of aleatoric randomisation or program a sequence or arpeggio into the sequencer.” Steve Hauschildt Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Loomans’ “Time Surfing”(2017)
“Being attuned to time, allowing it to ripen, trusting your intuition, using what emerges. It’s like surfing. Surfing with sensitivity and finesse over the ever-changing waves of time. Time Surfing” (31). “Choose one thing as your main task right now. Don’t have all kinds of different files open simultaneously as you work on them a… Continue reading
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