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Resist & Amplify
In music production you find yourself in situations that frame the music-in-progress in one way or another. Some of these situations you want to resist and some you want to amplify. You resist a situation when it constrains how the music could develop, and you amplify a situation when it encourages the music to go… Continue reading
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Database: Chris Clark On The Zone of Just Dabbling
“I’m very fond of getting stuff down really quickly and rendering to groups and just condensing mass of recordings and then letting stuff fall away that isn’t hitting me.” “I find that abstract realm of experimentation—it’s such a great place to start to just experience ultimate freedom. You’re not thinking about making a hit; you’re… Continue reading
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The Defining Part: Effects Chains
“I have loads of saved effects chains that I use constantly, created by myself, so I always think about these like my main plugins in a way.” Tom VR I was playing around with one of my piano sounds, but on the tiny keyboard, which isn’t the best for improvising because my hands can’t travel… Continue reading
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Database: Sub Focus On Drones
“This tends to be something I start with a lot: I make drones in the key of the song that I’m working in. The way I normally do them is that I record a long pass of me playing an instrument. There’s one I made from a bleepy square wave patch in Serum which is… Continue reading
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A.I. In Music: Notes On patten’s “Mirage FM”
I recently listened to Mirage FM, a recording by English musician and visual artist patten (Damian Roach) made using sounds from Riffusion. Riffusion is a website that generates audio based on user prompts, adapting Stable Diffusion‘s text-to-image generator to reconstruct music from a database of spectrograms. (Spectrograms are two-dimentional representations of audio’s frequency, amplitude, and… Continue reading
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Book Review
My book, The Creative Electronic Music Producer, was generously reviewed by Hugh Robjohns in Sound On Sound. You can read the review here. Continue reading
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