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Keywords: Version 1.0
(Photo: J.S. Bach’s sketch for the first prelude of The Well-Tempered Clavier) Version 1.0 of a track feels the most unsettled because you don’t know where you’re going with it yet; it’s still too new. What is this musical thing? This state of feeling is exemplified by improvising. When you improvise you’re making it up… Continue reading
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Database: A.G. Cook On Synthesis With An Inherent Musical Goal
“I was just toying around with an ultra basic [Native Instruments] Lazerbass patch. It can be what sounds sort of FM [synthesis]-y, but you can add too many beating layers to it and end up with this kind of pretty atonal sound. Because that’s on a dial, you’ve got something harmonic on one side and… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis Of Democratic Capitalism” (2023)
“The legitimacy of any system always depends on performance. In the end, people will cease to trust a system that does not work for them.” “The rise of demagogic nationalism and authoritarianism in high-income democracies—the core of today’s political crisis—can be attributed in significant part to…economic failures. The problem is not just the economic failures… Continue reading
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Keywords: Vibe
(Photo: Khashayar Kouchpeydeh) Short for vibration, vibe poetically describes music’s most intangible yet palpable quality: its feeling. Vibe is how music feels over time, how its vibrations sustain a mood, conjure an aura, and keep an affect aloft like smoke billowing on a windless day. Describing a music’s vibe is difficult and requires assigning a… Continue reading
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Database: Max Cooper On Parameter Spaces
“The Prophet-6 is my most used synth. It’s just got a nice balance of not trying to do too much, but doing enough to be flexible. The parameter space it covers is high proportion beautiful. Any synth, you’ve got a bunch of parameters with continuous values. If you’ve got 50 parameters, you’ve got a 50… Continue reading
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