poetry
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Rain Music
The rain falling outside the window makes a full spectum sound from highs to mids to lows polyphony’s million tiny transients gentle envelopes over rhythmic water drone and now thunder bass this 3D mix is just like music. Continue reading
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Flowing Through Music’s Forward Flows
1 Electronic music production is about forward flows. Forward flows means that the musical place where you began is never where you’ll end up. Forwards flows means that whatever you do to the music will cause it to spin headlong into the unknown, away from what it was towards what it might become. The music Continue reading
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1000 Alignments
Fix the structure. Fix the mix. Fix the order. Fix the bliss. Fix the treble. Fix the bass. Fix the reverbs. Fix the space. Fix the rhythms. Fix the beats. Fix the quantize. Fix the key. Fix the panning. Fix the flow. Fix the aura. Fix the tone. Fix the repetition. Fix the time. Fix Continue reading
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A Short Piece On Listening
Listen so hopefully that the music sings your solution. Continue reading
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Walking Music
Music is a scent you catch walking down the street corn over coals: a BBQ a cottage a dock on a lake jumping into dark water long past summer memories triggered from smoke in the air. Continue reading
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Tweaking A Beat
The beat could be anything, or something quite simple. The beat was for nothing, or for being interesting in itself, for creating a mood. I choose the kit at random and found its kick and snare: boom – – – kah – – boom – – boom – kah – – – A generic a place Continue reading
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City Music
Not sure how music lives in the country but in the city it lives in headphones powering people up boom—gah-boom—gah boom—gah-boom—gah making force fields demarcating space keeping the party to yourself. Continue reading
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Right-Click Thinking
Attention is like clicking on something to select and focus on it —Click— but thinking is a click and hold to go one step deeper —Option-Click— and then a menu appears of things you can do, choices you have, more options for action. Continue reading
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Breakbeat Thinking
Back in the early 80s the turntablists found the breakdowns the funky bits where the band stops and the rhythms keep running soon the samplers were grabbing hook-textures from old records reinflating the past to pop it in the present it was about finding the rhythm in things the grooves of juxtaposition a well-timed turnaround an accidental Continue reading
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Stolen Music
In the micro moments when no one notices where nothing matters and how can anything possibly happen your playing is accidental focus not busyness sound caring for a minute— that’s where things begin. Continue reading
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