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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Graham’s “Crazy New Ideas” (2021)
“Few understand how feeble new ideas look when they first appear. So if you want to have new ideas yourself, one of the most valuable things you can do is to learn what they look like when they’re born. Read about how new ideas happened, and try to get yourself into the heads of people… Continue reading
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Notes On Six Production Macros
The term macros comes from computing, where it refers to a single instruction that unfolds into a set of instructions to perform a task. In computer-based electronic music production, macros often refer to single commands triggered by a knob to carry out several tasks at once. In Ableton Live, an example of this is the… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Aurelio de la Vega’s “Regarding Electronic Music”
“The electronic medium seems to attract a long, motley caravan of young, inexperienced and often unprepared ‘beatnik type’ self-titled composers, who believe that the world began yesterday and they you only have to push buttons and prepare IBM cards to achieve magical results.” – Aurelio de la Vega, “Regarding Electronic Music” (1965) Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: U-Ziq’s “Preston Melodics” (2021)
(The 2021 Playlist.) Continue reading
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