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Music Production Mindsets: Letting Something Help You Decide
When I first began dabbling in electronic music production around 2000 or so, I had a big Yamaha synthesizer hooked up to my computer. The keyboard had its own built-in sound presets, and I managed to configure its various MIDI channels to the DAW software (Logic) so I could select a different sound for each… Continue reading
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Wind Music
Occasionally this time of year, when the evenings are warm and breezy and I’m walking the dog down a quiet neighborhood street late at night, I notice the sound of wind in the trees and stop to look and listen. If you look up, you see the wind’s twisting upwards path upon the oscillating tree… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: David Sumpter’s “Outnumbered” (2018)
“Spotify’s genre system places all songs as a point in 13 dimensions, grouping together those close-by points as genres. The dimensions include objective musical properties such as ‘loudness’ and ‘beats per minute’, as well as more subjective emotional properties, such as ‘energy’, ‘valance’ (sadness) and ‘danceability’. These latter, subjective measurements are established through listening sessions,… Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Autechre’s “32a_reflected”
(In “32a_reflected” tones hover, suspended, frequencies piercing at high altitudes, a swarm and hum drone growing into an almost tonal form that keeps resolving without identifiable chords. The tones feel like an ending but we don’t know when that ending will happen. The end will be without cadence, without melody, yet an idea can coalesce—a… Continue reading
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Music Production Mindsets: Building Upon The Faintest Traces
Beginning a new piece of music is the most exciting moment, as long you don’t get ahead of yourself, get bogged down in as yet unnecessary details, and instead stay focused on the task at hand. But what is this task, exactly? For me, it’s being on the lookout for something enchanting. The other day… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Eric Hayot’s “The Elements Of Academic Style” (2014)
“Writing is not the memorialization of ideas. Writing distillate, crafts, and pressure-tests ideas—it creates ideas…They emerge from a process, they represent their becoming, and that emergence, in their final form. Writing is therefore a kind of learning. Active writing should not involve saying things you already understand and know, but instead let you think new… Continue reading
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Iterations
Foxes and dogs. The quick beats the lazy. Jumping over the fence. The jumping fox, the lazy dog. The fence and the dog beat laziness, quickly. Brown dogs, lazy foxes, jumping quick over the fence. The quick brown dog-fox jumps lazily. Quick—the lazy fox-dog jumps! The quick brown fox lazily jumps over the dog. The… Continue reading
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