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EQ Reveries
I was listening to a part of a piece solo while EQing it. I had the sound’s waveform displayed in the EQ so I could see where its primary frequencies were happening and not happening, and my goal was to accentuate these frequencies and reduce (shelve) the less important ones at the margins. The part… Continue reading
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Good Bit Listening
One shouldn’t listen this way but I race through music letting the first track play all the way through then skipping along the others FF>> FF>>FF>> impatient doubtful a skeptic looking for the good bits hoping for the good bits the parts that slow me down stop me in my tracks music >> pauses >>… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Leonard Koren’s “What Artists Do” (2018)
“If you really want to separate your work from everyone else’s, every time you come to a Y in the road, don’t think about which way to go; automatically take the toughest route. Everybody else is taking the easiest one.” – Richard Serra in Leonard Koren’s What Artists Do (2018) Continue reading
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On Performance In Electronic Music Production
When you imagine a musician or band really killing it onstage, you hold in mind the traditional notion of musical performance as musicians’ real-time striving to accomplish a goal in the moment. This could be improvising a solo, playing a composed piece from memory, or rendering a classic song one more time. Part of why… Continue reading
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Impossible Mix
The subway dancer guys are performing with a bass speaker playing big beats but I’m already listening to my own sound on headphones so I fiddle with the volume just so their beat mixes with my bass line and now I don’t ignore them because our different musics are getting along. Continue reading
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