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Resonant Thoughts: Hudson Mohawke On More Than The Sum Of Their Actual Parts
“…It’s often these ones [tracks] where there’s really not a great deal going on, but somehow they’re still more than the sum of their actual parts.” – Hudson Mohawke Continue reading
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From Expectation To Receptivity: Nothing Happens, Until Something Does
“To give the moment a chance, you don’t give up after three, four or five minutes of playing. You don’t play the peak moment in the first three minutes. You’re trying to record something you want to listen to again, so you move carefully, so you don’t mess it up. Because when you just hit Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Graham’s “Hackers And Painters” (2004)
“The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. Another example we can take from painting is the way that paintings are created by gradual refinement. Unseen details combine to produce something that’s just stunning, like a Continue reading
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On Sonic Scavenging
One tried and true production workflow is to make field recordings and then incorporate these into a piece of music to give it an injection of a real life, acoustic soundscape. Many musicians believe that field recordings imbue a track with vividness, a bespoke aura, and intentionality impossible to achieve by other means. For both Continue reading
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