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Nine Books About Creativity
Ferran Adria. A Day at elBulli: an insight into the ideas, methods and creativity of Ferran Adria Ed Catmull Creativity, Inc. Marcus du Sautoy The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI Ken Kacienda Creative Selection Kyna Leski The Storm of Creativity David Lynch Catching The Big Fish: meditation, consciousness, and creativity… Continue reading
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Production Moves: Merging Sounds And Processes Through Tiny Cumulative Changes
Much of my music production time is spent making tiny changes, often because I can’t figure what more significant thing I need to do. So I go small. Here’s the scene: the piece is just okay, and progress on it is just okay, and the finished thing may too be destined to be just okay.… Continue reading
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Walking Music
Music is a scent you catch walking down the street corn over coals: a BBQ a cottage a dock on a lake jumping into dark water long past summer memories triggered from smoke in the air. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Roy Christopher’s “Dead Precedents” (2019)
“Underneath that odd veneer of mainstream schizophrenia, subgenres were splitting and dividing like brain-tumor cells. Enabled by recording and sampling technologies that eroded any semblance of cultural cohesion, forecasts of the future and pieces of the past were mixing into an unrecognizable new era.” – Roy Christopher, Dead Precedents, p. 18 (2019) Continue reading
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Notes On Programming Rhythms
As I teach myself how to program rhythms that I enjoy listening to, I’ve learned some lessons that might interest the musicians among my readers. Lesson One: the most efficient way to program a rhythm is to play it. You can play it all at once, as I do, one part at a time,… Continue reading
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