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The Perfect Room: Two Perspectives
“When you put on a pair of headphones you are wearing the studio on your head, which is 100 percent reproducible. I’ve never been in a room that affected how my headphones sound.” – Andrew Scheps “What you perceive when you listen to a mix isn’t some kind of objective reality: it’s almost entirely constructed… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Kit Mackintosh’s “Neon Screams” (2021)
“Vocal psychedelia is the omni-genre at the epicenter of our new musical mythology, from Jamaica to Africa to America.” […] “Auto-Tuned artists are the new synthesizers — they’re the new samplers — and the sounds they make recalibrate your consciousness.” […] “Music simulates the future. It war-games it. All those sci-fi sounds it produces, all… Continue reading
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Music In The Great British Bake Off
While music doesn’t have inherent universal meanings, it is one of the most potent steerers of emotion. Perhaps in a more visceral way than painting or literature, music is literally airborne affect—sound waves vibrating us—that ushers listeners though realms of emotion in real time. Music moves us from happy to sad in a chord, or… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Seth Godin’s “The Practice” (2021)
“Ship creative work. On a schedule. Without attachment and without reassurance. The internet brings uninvited energy, positive and negative, to the work we set out to do. It opens an infinite spigot of new ideas, new tools, and new people for the project. If you want to create your work, it might pay to turn… Continue reading
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Six Notes On Music Production Workflows
Produce accidents and cultivate disorders. As much as you might want to be in control of the creative process, your most powerful skill is finding ways to produce accidents of timbre, rhythm, melodic/harmonic juxtaposition and relationship, and arrangement. For example, musical accidents might transpire when two rhythms are misaligned, when a melody’s counterpoint is inverted,… Continue reading
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