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Principles of Electronic Music Production
Summary Over ten chapters richly illustrated with the practices and ideas of innovative musicians past and present, across a range of styles, Principles of Electronic Music Production is a companion book to The Creative Electronic Music Producer that looks at the producer as an omnimusical figure―a composer-performer-engineer who improvises, designs sounds, programs MIDI, sculpts audio,… Continue reading
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Database: Steve Hauschildt On Starting From A Harmonic Point
“Most of the time, the bedrock of a track is created through chord structures, so I’m starting from a harmonic point rather than a sequence or arpeggio. Once I have that harmonic foundation, I’ll use some sort of aleatoric randomisation or program a sequence or arpeggio into the sequencer.” Steve Hauschildt Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Loomans’ “Time Surfing”(2017)
“Being attuned to time, allowing it to ripen, trusting your intuition, using what emerges. It’s like surfing. Surfing with sensitivity and finesse over the ever-changing waves of time. Time Surfing” (31). “Choose one thing as your main task right now. Don’t have all kinds of different files open simultaneously as you work on them a… Continue reading
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No Direction/Direction
The most discombobulating, yet thrilling part of composing is being without a plan of action for a session. Load an instrument, or noodle on a sound? Improvise some chords? Build a beat? Experiment with effects? Revisit an old project? This considering of options and trying out little things puts us in a space for something… Continue reading
