Electronic music
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On Music Production Disconnects
At the center of electronic music production is a disconnect between the technologies of the craft and the feelings I hope to conjure through the sounds. The disconnect arises from the fact that thinking through the potentials of technologies and seeking expressiveness are different ways of being in the world. The technologies I use are Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jean-Michel Jarre On “Oxygène”
“When I started to do electronic music I was obsessed — I more or less forgot that obsession along the way — about not having anything being repeated in exactly the same way. For me it was exactly the opposite attitude to that of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and all those electronic bands who were doing Continue reading
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Plentitudes
On Spotify On Apple Music Continue reading
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Musical Vantage Points
What is your vantage point on the music? From what position do you listen—from a point of doubt, sympathy, skepticism, good cheer, confidence, or anxiety? Does your vantage change as the music changes, moving from a positive glance to a negative sneer? Does your positioning allow you to hear the music as it is, as Continue reading
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Production Moves: Merging Sounds And Processes Through Tiny Cumulative Changes
Much of my music production time is spent making tiny changes, often because I can’t figure what more significant thing I need to do. So I go small. Here’s the scene: the piece is just okay, and progress on it is just okay, and the finished thing may too be destined to be just okay. Continue reading
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An Article On Creativity In Electronic Music Production
My article “Popular Music Production in Laptop Studios: Creative Workflows as Problem-Solving Within Ableton Live” is available in Perspectives on Music Production: Producing Music (Routledge 2019). The article takes a problem-solving approach to creativity by exploring electronic music production techniques within Ableton Live, one of the most influential and widely used DAW (digital audio workstation) Continue reading
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Piano, Metals And Organ Music
Available on Spotify and Apple Music. (Mastered by Alain Van Achte) Continue reading
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One Way To Listen To Music: Notes On Mark Fell’s “Multistability 6-B”
One way to listen to music–and by to I mean up and over and through and around music–is to imagine it as proposing a set of ideas for our consideration. From this perspective we can think about any music as sonically embodying, modeling, and organizing itself through these ideas. As we listen the ideas become Continue reading
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