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From Fretting To Positioning To Encounter Interestingness
I used to fret about how I would begin a musical project. My way out of this quandary was to make recordings based on a single sound sample—a Tibetan singing bowl for Singing Bowl Music, Tibetan finger cymbals for Finger Cymbal Music, a Thai gong for Gong Music, crotales for Organ and Crotales Music, and 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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Notes On Music Production In Quarantine
Recently, with more time at home, I’ve been thinking through and working on different ways of making music. My usual approach is to improvise my way into something interesting. This always involves playing the keyboard, using a sound that I believe in, and trying to figure out some kind of structure and flow for that Continue reading
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Notes On A Music Production Workflow
I know some ways to work, but there are so many routes to get musical things done that each session is a re-thinking of how to work. (Begin anywhere Cage said.) • I began with marimba chord samples that I had recorded a few months back. I played between 20 and 30 different chord rolls—plenty to Continue reading
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Musical Failure
failure – a lack or deficiency of a desirable quality I’m listening through an almost finished piece, trying to get a sense of how the music moves. There’s a lot I like: the mix is clear (the music has only four parts), the effects and EQing are minimal, the tempo is unrushed, and some kind Continue reading
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On Automated Aesthetics For Opened-Up Impact: Jon Hopkins’ Music
“I like everything to evolve, I don’t like sounds to be static really… I like the idea of trying to create this musical world where everything is fluid and any sound can at any point just change.” -Jon Hopkins One of the most compelling qualities of Jon Hopkins’ music is how its elements shift, develop, Continue reading
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