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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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‘In The Style Of’: Perspectives On Creativity From AI-Based Text, Image, and Music Generators
“Innovation, like evolution, is a process of constantly discovering ways of rearranging the world into forms that are unlikely to arise by chance—and that happen to be useful.” Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works “The higher the creativity component of a profession, the more likely it is to have disconnected inputs and outputs.” Naval Ravikant In… Continue reading
