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January 22, 2024

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(Photo: Frederick Stubbs) Programming music is like making marionettes dance by pulling on their strings. Unlike acoustic musicians who pull their own strings, the electronic music producer is one level removed from the action, conducting puppet parts from afar. Programming entails many processes, including playing or drawing MIDI, finagling audio samples, plotting effects trajectories over Continue reading

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January 25, 2019

Notes On Ken Kocienda’s “Creative Selection” (2018)y

“When software behavior is mysterious, get more organized.” – Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection (2018) As a seeker of books about the pragmatics of the creative process, I’m always looking for ways to re-think through making music. I’ve learned from chefs (Ferran Adria), high wire artists (Philippe Petit), filmmakers (David Lynch), architects (Kyna Leski), musicians (Dennis DeSantis), Continue reading

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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.

programming

Keywords: Programming

Notes On Ken Kocienda’s “Creative Selection” (2018)y