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Keywords: Listen More
To Listen More is to understand better what’s missing from your music. To figure out how to improve it—finesse its details, make its rhythms move, its melodies conjure, its ambiances enchanting, its arrangements tight, its mixes cohesive—listen to how other musicians have approached these problems of tone, texture, time, impact, and form. Their music is Continue reading
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Performance Lessons
“The performer necessarily comes at the music from within […] Most often the performance situation catapults a musician into a rare and unusual condition, one that reveals the basic features of experience with eloquent directness, free, at least to some extent, from the usual overlay of cultural and philosophical presuppositions that nearly always obstruct our Continue reading
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Database: Leafcutter John On Sound Sources
“The rule is anything can be a sound source as long as it’s right.” Leafcutter John database Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: W.G. Sebald’s ” A Place In The Country” (1998)
“What may be true of photography, though, is not necessarily applicable to art. The latter depends on ambiguity, polyvalence, resonance, obfuscation, and illumination […]” “Jan Peter Tripp’s paintings, too, have a consistently analytic quality rather than a synthesizing one. The photographic raw material which they take as their starting point is painstakingly modified. Artificial distinctions Continue reading
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Keywords: Humanize, Quantize, Frankenize
If you make beats you work with timing on an infinitesimal scale. The timing or groove of a beat is as important as its rhythm patterns because timing conveys subtle, almost subliminal information about musicianship, directionality, intensity, and mood. Nuances of where a beat’s components hit in time–in relation to one another and in relation Continue reading
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Keywords: In One Session
Although producing music is generally an iterative process in which you return to tracks begun yesterday, last week, or last year with an ear to gradually improving them, ideally it’s an all-at-once process that leverages time running out. In One Session is the principle of maximizing what you can improvise, record, edit, and arrange in Continue reading
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