grid thinking
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On Click Tracks And Going Off The Grid
If you record your music using digital audio workstation (DAW) software such Apple Logic, Garageband, Ableton Live, or Digital Performer, you’ll notice that every time you go to hit Record a metronome click synced to your file’s tempo automatically clicks into action. The default tempo is 120 bpm (the optimal electronic dance music tempo) and Continue reading
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Freestyle: Sampling A Thought
Put an idea into the Grid sampler to hear what happens: Happens….Happens…Happens…Happens… It’s a two-part sound, a high tone followed by a lower one: ha—ppens. The ha sustains a pitch, while the ppens falls off after the plosive with a slight downward pitch bend. Isolate the ha and assign it to a pad. Drum it: Continue reading
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Theory As Poetry: Rosalind Krauss’s “Grids” (1979)
The grid is an introjection of the boundaries of the world into the interior of the work; it is a mapping of the space inside the frame onto itself. It is a mode of repetition, the content of which is the conventional nature of art itself. As we have a more and more extended experience Continue reading
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