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Resonant Thoughts: Peter Zumthor’s Atmospheres (2003)
“We perceive atmosphere through our emotional sensibility—a form of perception that works incredibly quickly, and which we humans evidently need to help us survive. Not every situation grants us time to make up our minds on whether or not we like something or whether indeed we might be better heading off in the opposite direction. Continue reading
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Once You’ve Found The Middle Ground Twiddle With Its Sides
One way to think about music production is that it’s an intensive generation of a track’s middle ground followed by twiddling with this middle in search of variations and details to fill out the sides. I’ve written about how I begin pieces with chords, but any sound will do. It doesn’t matter where you begin, but it Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Floating Points On Playing With Modulation
“When I listen to musicians–when I see a cellist embodying a cello, I want to hear into their soul. I feel that’s fairly easy however good you are as a cellist, because you’re connected to that object. But with a synthesizer it’s a lot harder because you’re behind all these circuits. So I long for electronic Continue reading
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On Judgment And Tacit Knowledge
If you follow music production discussions on Reddit you regularly see threads begun by musicians new to music production seeking advice. The musicians have just got set up with some equipment, have begun making tracks, and are noticing the gigantic gulf between the sound of their music and that of professionally-produced tracks. The most common Continue reading
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