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Resonant Thoughts: Karl Bartos’s “The Sound of the Machine” (2022)
“The sequencer’s automatic sound sequences and the drum machine’s loops hypnotized me. These black boxes brought the trance quality of African, Indian and Asian musical cultures into pop music, a quality that had been the starting point for the minimalist concept.” “Working with automatic music machines is fundamentally different from human music-making, simply because machines Continue reading
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Notes On Form In Electronic Music Production
“A piece of writing ought not to be planned for a given size but developed to the length most suitable to the material, and no farther.” – John McPhee, Tabula Rasa If you’re a casual listener to electronic music, you may be forgiven for thinking that form in most styles of the genre is essentially Continue reading
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Error In Music Production
“…errors cause planes to crash, buildings to collapse, and knowledge to regress. The beneficial properties need to reside in the type of exposure, that is, the payoff function and not in the ‘luck’ part: there needs to be a significant asymmetry between the gains (as they need to be large) and the errors (small or Continue reading
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