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Brett’s Sound Picks: Rob Clouth’s “Casimir” (2020)
(Curious about mixing? Listen to this.) Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Daphne Oram’s “An Individual Note” (1972)
“The resulting flow is a complex pattern of tensions and relaxations which evolve as the musical material is worked out. The words ‘controlled’ and ‘worked out’ do not really convey what I mean. There seem to be no suitable English words. I am hunting for some word which brings a hint of the skillful yachtsman… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Autechre On Building Things
“I quite like to build things and then forget how it works and then use it later on, and not really be able to remember what I was thinking about when I built it. It’s a little bit like working with yourself in a way, but from a time when you’re not aware of what… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Martyn Heyne’s “The Hall” (2020)
(Note: This is the most beautiful music I’ve heard so far this year. Heyne’s guitar-delay instrumentation is sparse, the music goes on a journey, and the chords are deeply inventive.) Follow Brett’s Sound Picks 2020 here. Continue reading
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Notes On Curation
There is a music software plug-in by XLN Audio called XO which displays all of your computer’s one shot audio samples visually as colored dots against a black space. Each dot represents a different sample, and each cluster of similarly colored dots represents a class of sounds grouped by timbre and pitch (e.g. deep-pitched kick… Continue reading
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