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Resonant Thoughts: Warren Zanes’ “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska” (2023)
“Why are the Sun sessions Elvis’s best? It’s the spontaneity. That short echo. They’ve got a little Nebraska in them. Those records, they’re pretty closely connected in some strange metaphysical way. I suppose their relationship would be in the characters but also, without a doubt, in the sound. It’s a dissociative sound. It’s the sound… Continue reading
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Database: Aphex Twin On Not Reusing Sounds, Avoiding The Obvious, And How All Sounds Break Down Into Really Simple Things
“I’m not into multitracking, I like things to be live. I record everything live, and I’m not bothered about saving sounds. In fact, I erase them on purpose. I have a library of stuff, but it’s stuff I haven’t used yet. And also I don’t want to use a sound I’ve used before. There’s an… Continue reading
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What Makes A Good Software Instrument?
As a percussionist, I don’t have a favorite musical instrument, which makes sense because percussionist are, by training and maybe by temperament, generalists. We learn how to strike and vibrate a great many instruments–from tympani, djembes, and snare drums to marimbas, gongs, and glockenspiels–without playing favorites. Each instrument is a world and requires its own… Continue reading
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Database: Frequent On Giant Effects Chains And Arbitrary Decisions Leading To A New Musical Place
“Just make a giant [effects] chain. A lot of times people ask me how I make a sound, and it’s like, I just didn’t stop where you would have stopped twenty effects ago. There’s no secret thing: you just keep doing shit and eventually you’ll get something interesting. And that’s the non-technical aspect of it:… Continue reading
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Keywords: Loop
The breakbeat, the round, the sequence, the riff, the inherent rhythm, the timeline, the tala–a loop is a groove propeller, a repeating bit that captures a feeling and spins it around and around until its sound feeling is airborne, aloft on its own motion, soaring over time. A loop proposes being circular for a while,… Continue reading
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