omnimusicality

January 16, 2024

Keywords: Omnimusicality

(Photo: Ivan Jermakov) Omnimusicality describes the competencies, skillsets, fluencies, and workflows of the electronic music producer who engages music from many angles and by many means. The producer is omnimusical in being simultaneously a composer, performer, sound designer, editor, and engineer who writes parts, designs sounds, programs MIDI and automates its parameters, sculpts audio, invents Continue reading

keywords, omnimusicality
April 24, 2023

Playing An Instrument, Playing A DAW, Omnimusicality

I’ve been thinking about how playing an acoustic musical instrument can be a model for producing music in DAW software. As I hear it, producers who approach their DAWs as instruments develop novel and idiosyncratic ways of creatively playing the technology rather than merely using it. This post compares the experiences of playing an instrument Continue reading

omnimusicality

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

omnimusicality

Keywords: Omnimusicality

Playing An Instrument, Playing A DAW, Omnimusicality