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January 4, 2024

Database: Virtual Riot On Building A Map Of Sound Design In Your Mind

“With Massive, before Serum, there were no tutorials. And I was just turning every knob and imagining what that might mean what I’m doing right there […] I was like, Just turn every knob, remember what it does and start to build in your mind a sort of map of, Okay, this does this, this does Continue reading

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May 4, 2021

Populating Sounds

One technique I use often is to create variations on a single sound that has the potential to be multiple sounds. I begin whilst browsing presets, not looking for anything in particular, just hoping to be surprised. Searching for sounds outside of the context of making music can be dreary work: ninety percent of the Continue reading

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July 14, 2015

Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online

1. A short documentary about the work of sound designers and editors. “The answer to all sound design is: storytelling…Putting together a world that will suck you in.” 2. An article about Chicago’s juke music scene. “The genre grew from speedy, repetitive ghetto house in the late 1990s and early 2000s, yet it also borrows 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.

sound design

Database: Virtual Riot On Building A Map Of Sound Design In Your Mind

Populating Sounds

Curating The Week: Music-Related Stuff Online