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Resonant Thoughts: Brian Eno On Sequencing (1995)
“When I make loops on a sequencer, I always try to play them all the way through, so I play the whole part, then I listen to it, and quite often I find a long section that I like. Loop that, cut it up so that the loop doesn’t recur regularly. The idea of always Continue reading
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Lessons From Making Ambient Loops From Ambient Tails
One of the most enjoyable parts of music production is making ambient loops from ambient tails of sounds. I begin doing this several months after a piece is already underway, with its main sounds and parts somewhat set into place. To make an ambient loop, I look for those moments between or just after the Continue reading
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Finding Repetition’s Vertical Enchantments Hidden Within Linear Composing
Most of the time when I’m producing music I approach it in terms of a through-composed journey through time—a getting from one place to another. The clearest example of such a journey is a free improvisation, say at the piano, which I do a lot. When I improvise I tend to move outwards from a Continue reading
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How Would You Analyze William Basinski’s “Cascade”?
It’s a beautiful, maybe melancholy piece of music. But where does it begin and end? It’s as if this music has been going for a long long time. It has an oceanic quality. It’s all about repetition. The music is built from a tape loop of a piano phrase. We hear a subtle melodic movement within Continue reading
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