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Prince And The LM-1: Four Lessons
I wrote an article for Popular Music & Society about how Prince used Roger Linn’s first drum machine, the LM-1 Drum Computer. The article explores Prince’s LM-1 rhythm programming techniques and sound ideals by considering song examples, interviews with Prince’s engineers and musicians, and online fan discussion. I argue that given the constraints of music technologies… 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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Brett’s Sound Picks: Lorenzo Senni’s “Canone Infinito” (2020)
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Resonant Thoughts: Nick Foster and Simone Rebaudengo’s “On Distortion” (2020)
“A symptom of electronic failure became the defining audio landscape for generations, the ‘bug’ became a ‘feature’ and distortion settings are now commonplace on every available guitar amplifier. The initial aim of amplification technology was to generate an accurate reproduction of an acoustic guitar sound, only louder. In reality the technology morphed and altered the… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: David Chatton Barker On Frequencies
“When I was listening to this situation, it was as though there was another frequency which came through–that wasn’t done by that being played, it wasn’t being done by the combination of these things, but the combination of these things allowed this other frequency to come in.” – David Chatton Barker Continue reading
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