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Music Production: Working With Effects
At some stage in the music production process, I work with audio effects. These effects are known as software “plug-ins” that load inside of my DAW software. An effect can be as simple as an EQ or a reverb, or it can be a more complex type of sound mangler that alters a sound through… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Richard E. Nisbett’s “Mindware” (2016)
“The most important thing I have to tell you—in this whole book—is that you should never fail to take advantage of the free labor of the unconscious mind.” Richard Nisbett, Mindware (2016) Continue reading
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Music As Labor
I hear music as labor now— which struck me when I was standing in line at Whole Foods the air conditioning wasn’t working and staff were complaining while stocking shelves it’s hot up here and I noticed the blues playing on the sound system the guitar solo that couldn’t end the drums slap-shuffling the baseline dutifully… Continue reading
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Attention Over Time: Slow Noticing
“A ‘bit’ of information is definable as a difference which makes a difference. Such a difference, as it travels and undergoes successive transformations in a circuit, is an elementary idea.” -Gregory Bateson, Steps To An Ecology Of Mind (1972), p. 315 When I’m working on music I often wonder whether I could work faster, but… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Richard Sennett’s “The Craftsman” (2009)
“As a performer, at my fingertips I experience error—error that I will seek to correct. I have a standard for what should be, but my truthfulness resides in the simple recognition that I make mistakes…I have to be willing to commit error, to play wrong notes, in order eventually to get them right.” “If the… Continue reading
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Dear Spotify
You drive a hard bargain using algorithms to try to know what we like and who is like us sound is just a trace of other measures other metrics music a signifier of crowd thinking a playlist for every mood but you keep getting it wrong it being me me being my taste predictable yet… Continue reading
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