music production
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Intuitive Practice And Conventions Of Practice
While running recently I came across some construction spray painted markings on the road that got me thinking about the relationship between intuitions and conventions in artistic practice. I stopped at the edge of the road—I often look for reasons to interrupt a run—and studied the fluorescent markings. I saw a curved line with arrows on Continue reading
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As A Single Flowing Gesture
(Ensō calligraphy by Kanjuro Shibata) “Too much thinking.” – Kanjuro Shibata, master bowmaker and archery teacher There is no best way of doing music production, but I find that when I approach a piece in terms of what might be called a single gesture I have the best chance of turning it into something that works. Continue reading
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Music Production Steps
Creating new music involves many steps, not all of which necessarily involve playing notes, notating them, or recording them. For me, a workflow often involves six steps. Depending on the day, I’ll work on one or two of these steps, but almost never all of them. Each step is a different spoke in the compositional Continue reading
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Notes On Production Clichés
“Beware of clichés…There are clichés of response as well as expression.There are clichés of observation and of thought–even of conception.”–Geoff Dyer I struck out a bit yesterday when I tried making something. I liked the sound, but the melody was hackneyed. It was so bad, so uninteresting, that I recorded it as a reminder that this Continue reading
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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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Being Lost In Music Production
It might come as a surprise for you to know that when I’m making new music, I’m usually lost—lost in the sounds, obviously, but also in the sense that I don’t quite have my bearings: it’s not clear where the music is going, where I am in the midst of that going, and which steps Continue reading
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Song Structures Versus Sound Sculptures
One key to electronic music production is learning to devise ways to expand what you happen to have right now into something something you can’t yet hear. What you have right now might be a rhythm, a bass line, a sequence of chords, a burst of noise, a loop, or ten minutes of field recordings Continue reading
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