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The Analytical-Intuitive Fader
“The musician, like the writer or speaker, regularly confronts his conduct as performance or not.” David Sudnow, Talk’s Body (1979) On one of my favorite VST synthesizers there’s a volume mix fader that allows one to move between the sounds of two oscillators (Osc). The control is delightfully simple: when the fader is all the way up, Continue reading
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Database: Ital Tek On Inspiration
“I try to see (inspiration) as a muscle I flex.” “The way I work is to create a huge amount of content/versions/takes whatever you want to call it and then hone it down over and over. I’ll get inspired by some happy accident when I unplugged a guitar and it made a weird thud through Continue reading
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Commit To Beauty
Each day I work I’m unsure as to how to alter music-in-progress I don’t yet like into something I do like. I’ve played something, made a sound or a sample, but when I listen back to the idea there’s no magic–it sounds lackluster, predictable, cliché. Often the problem is that too many little things are Continue reading
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On Theory, Practice, And Progress
“Techniques and processes are developed that work, but the understanding of them comes later.” – Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works Because every session unfolds differently, there’s no typical producing music day. Some days you’re determined to begin something new, other days you revisit a piece from a few weeks ago, curious to hear if it Continue reading
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Database: The Field On Listening For A Long Time
“There aren’t necessarily things happening in my music all the time, and it’s always interesting to hear how people experience it in a totally different way from me. I created it, but they can hear something totally different. Maybe it’s just out of boredom that the brain can make a loop exciting.” “If you sit Continue reading
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