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Keywords: No Expectations
No expectations is an approach to workflow as open-ended and non-determined. The mindset celebrates continual play on your musical system’s edges: exploring tools, trying things out, noticing how the sounds feel and work on you rather than having preset, a priori ideas of how you should use them. Play a few chords, turn a few… Continue reading
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Database: Jack Stratton On Hyped-Up Versus Doing Their Little Thing Sounds
“For a while there—and I have to credit a friend with this phrase—we lived under the Rule of the Solo Button, where every instrument sounded lush and big. So you got these really hyped-up sounds—and it’s cool when everything’s hyped up. It’s kind of like the Chipotle burrito, where every element you could just eat… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” (2017)
“It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.” “Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers,… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Michael Crawley’s “To The Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas” (2024)
“You have to be able to feel where the edge is in particular training sessions, to have a sense of pace from the catch of your breath and the weight of your legs, and you have to be able to be attentive to the background fatigue that is the constant companion of any athlete.” “‘You… Continue reading
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Database: Sean Booth On Accessing That Space and Maxing It Out
“I’m quite often trying to access that space that I was in before I knew how any technology worked, when I was hearing records and imagining what the sounds might be. That to me is a really valuable thing.” “Just get the little thing and fucking max it out. You know, get it doing shit… Continue reading
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Keywords: Genre & Style Thinking
Genre & style thinking is reflecting on the kind of music you could be making. You may find inspiration in what you listen to, but the music you could be making is more than the sum of your fandoms. In fact, it probably isn’t like anything you already know. Try to imagine its sound— its… Continue reading
