For my final project in Advanced Audio Production at NYU, I created a 5.1 surround remix of the Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun.” You can download it here. If you don’t have surround playback, you can listen to the stereo version: I was motivated to create a surround remix of a Beatles song by hearing [...]
Also filed in Copyright and Authorship, Music, Recording, Software
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Tagged ableton, beatles, danger mouse, dreaming, electronica, film theory, mixing, Music, nyu, paul geluso, pro tools, Recording, remixes, rock, surround sound, synths
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This past November, I had the privilege of performing in the fourth Disquiet Junto concert of 2012 in the apexart gallery.
Also filed in Autobio, Improvisation, Music, Software
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Tagged ableton, apexart, art, disquiet, harmonica, Improvisation, junto, marc weidenbaum, Music, retail
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Susan McClary “Rap, Minimalism and Structures of Time in Late Twentieth-Century Culture.” in Audio Culture, Daniel Warner, ed, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004, pp 289 – 298. This is essay is the best piece of music writing I’ve read in quite a while. She articulates my personal ideology of music perfectly. Also, she quotes Prince! [...]
Also filed in Emotion, Improvisation, Music, Music Theory, Race and Identity, Recording
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Tagged america, classical, Composition, hip-hop, history, Improvisation, prince, race, Recording, repetition, schoenberg, susan mcclary, technomusicology, theodor adorno
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Matthew D. Thibeault. Wisdom for Music Education From the Recording Studio. General Music Today, 20 October 2011. Stuart Wise, Janinka Greenwood and Niki Davis. Teachers’ Use of Digital Technology in Secondary Music Education: Illustrations of Changing Classrooms. British Journal of Music Education, Volume 28, Issue 2, July 2011, pp 117 - 134. Digital recording studios [...]
Also filed in Music, Music Teaching, Recording, Software
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Tagged brian eno, Composition, education, Improvisation, Music, music notation, music teaching, nyu, psychology, Recording, Sampling, school, teaching, technomusicology
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I’ve talked a lot of smack about high modernist music on this blog recently. Yesterday I got an email from a composer named Evan Kearney with some thoughtful reactions. Here’s what he had to say: [Y]ou wrote that you didn’t ‘get’ High Modernism (serialism, Webern, Pierre Boulez, Elliot Carter, etc.) and what it offered for [...]
The most fun Music Technology class I’m taking this semester is Advanced Audio Production with Paul Geluso. A major component of the class is learning how to listen analytically, and to that end, we were assigned to pick a song and do an exhaustive study of its sonic qualities. We used methods from William Moylan’s [...]
Also filed in Music, Recording
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Tagged ableton, analysis, attention, big boi, funk, hip-hop, janelle monae, melodyne, michael jackson, Music Theory, nyu, omnigraffle, paul geluso, production, r&b, Recording, visualization
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
A significant chunk of the music I’ve made in the past year has been prompted by a blogger and journalist named Marc Weidenbaum, proprietor of the fine electronic music web zine Disquiet. This is funny, because while I’ve had a number of online exchanges with Marc, we’ve never actually met face to face. Nevertheless, in [...]
Also filed in Internet, Music, Recording, Sampling, Social Media
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Tagged avant-garde, blogging, community, disquiet, experimental, junto, marc weidenbaum, Music
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Discussing “Silver Apples Of The Moon” puts me in a quandary. I like Morton Subotnick personally, and very much enjoyed studying with him. I appreciate his desire to liberate the world from the shackles of keyboard-centric thinking. There’s no question that his music is personal, original and forward-thinking. But I find myself unable to emotionally [...]
Also filed in Hardware, Interfaces, Recording, Sampling
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Tagged analog, anxiety, buchla, Composition, electronica, modernism, morton subotnick, rhythm
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Recently, I was on Connecticut Public Radio’s Colin McEnroe show, talking about the culture and history of the mashup. I gave my usual enthusiastic endorsement of the practice. My friend Jesse Selengut, an ace jazz trumpet player and all-around music master, had some responses.
Also filed in Copyright and Authorship, Music, Recording, Sampling
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Tagged appropriation, capitalism, collage, Composition, copyright, dj earworm, hip-hop, jesse selengut, mashups, memes, Music, ownership, production, Recording, rolling stones, Sampling, susan blackmore
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Frank Ocean is the R&B singer of the moment. Does he merit all they hype? There’s no doubt but that the man can sing. I first heard him in Jay-Z and Kanye West’s tremendous “No Church In The Wild,” which owes a lot of its intensity to Ocean’s vocals. He’s been releasing some good mixtapes [...]
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Tagged audio two, digging the crates, Evolution, frank ocean, genealogy, honeydrippers, jay-z, kanye, mary j blige, memes, rnb, Sampling, top billin
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