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Notes On Making Beats II
In general, I don’t like beats that are too regular, yet I also don’t like beats that are merely functional. I like beats that are different—beats that make me think about their patterns of beatings. So when I compose (electronic) beats, I avoid typical beat-making moves: having the beats mark the backbeats (e.g. in 4/4… Continue reading
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Resonant Thought: Henri Lefebvre’s “Everyday Life in the Modern World” (1971)
“Does music express the secret nature of everyday life, or compensate, on the contrary, for its triviality and superficiality?…Music is nothing else but number and proportion (intervals, rhythm, timbres) and it is at the same time nothing else but lyricism, profusion and dream. It is all vitality, exuberance and sensuality and all analysis, precision and… Continue reading
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An Article On Creativity In Electronic Music Production
My article “Popular Music Production in Laptop Studios: Creative Workflows as Problem-Solving Within Ableton Live” is available in Perspectives on Music Production: Producing Music (Routledge 2019). The article takes a problem-solving approach to creativity by exploring electronic music production techniques within Ableton Live, one of the most influential and widely used DAW (digital audio workstation)… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Deaf Center’s “Undone” (2019)
Follow Brett’s Sound Picks 2019 here. (Listen to Brett’s Sound Picks 2018 here.) Continue reading
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On Clearly Articulating
articulate—express an idea or feeling fluently or coherently (from Latin articulare ‘divide into joints’) Well-articulated music has amazing communicative power, and when I listen to other musicians play the first thing I notice is how it articulates (or not). For drummers and percussionists, it’s impossible to hide behind sloppy articulation because the sounds we make… Continue reading
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Tweaking A Beat
The beat could be anything, or something quite simple. The beat was for nothing, or for being interesting in itself, for creating a mood. I choose the kit at random and found its kick and snare: boom – – – kah – – boom – – boom – kah – – – A generic a place… Continue reading
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