less is more
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Less And More Music Production Heuristics
Less predictable. More unusual. Less smooth. More textured. Less even. More jagged. Less new. More weathered.* Less obvious. More nuanced. Less automated. More considered. Less quantized. More error. Less looped. More change over time. Less rushed. More taking its time. Less prefab. More customized. Less trying to impress. More trying to explore. Less boring. More Continue reading
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Notes On Less Is More
“…Who strive—you don’t know how the others strive To paint a little thing like that you smeared Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,— Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says, (I know his name, no matter) – so much less! Well, less is more, Lucrezia. I am judged…” – Robert Browning, “Andrea del Continue reading
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On Less Is More: Lorenzo Senni’s Music
Lorenzo Senni has an interesting musical thing going on. On his recent recordings Superimpositions (2014) and Quantum Jelly (2012) he makes a kind of electronic trance music that does away with the beats, leaving only pulsing, echoing, and arpeggiating synthesizer chord sequences. Without the metrical context of the relentless 4/4 thump, the synth chords are Continue reading
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